THONGSBRIDGE reader Elaine Hale was only 18 months old when the war started, but has many memories from that era.
She said: “I contracted scarlet fever and spent a month at Moorview Isolation Hospital in Meltham. My parents could only look through the window at visiting times.’’
She added: “My future husband lived in Marsden and cycled to an air crash above Meltham moor.
He strapped live ammunition around his body and cycled home.
“His father unstrapped it, put it all in the River Colne and rang the police.
“Not having learned his lesson, he heard about another crash on Wessenden Moor above Standedge.
He cycled there and took a tail plane with about seven or eight swastikas on it symbolising how many enemy aircraft they had shot down.
“He and his friend were stopped by the police and had to surrender their souvenir.’’
