The War in Leeds

As a child five at the outbreak of war, i longed for some action and literally fall out in the shape of shrapnel. There were air raids on leeds, certainly, and an air raid shelter outside our suburban front door. But pared with the bombing of sheffield, say, or hull, leeds got off lightly. As i wrote in writing home, the city specialized in the manufacture of ready made suits and the cultivation of rhubarb. In wortley, the good doctors were doctor slaney and doctor mones. In armley was doctor gordon and doctor dalrymple,. who once lance to boil on dad's neck before resuming