I WAS only four years old when the Baedeker raids hit York (The Press, April 28).

I was sat with my parents in an Anderson shelter in Langholme Drive, in Acomb, and on occasions I have flashbacks to that night and many more air raid warnings.

My father, like many of his ilk, was engaged in war work at the LNER carriage and wagon works and then conscripted into Dad's Army as air raid wardens headquartered at the junction of Langholme Drive and Plantation Drive, complete with air raid siren, tin helmet and hand operated fire extinguisher.

The railway sidings and houses in the area suffered a direct hit. My future school, Poppleton Road Primary, was another hit, and the very next morning shrapnel was found in our bathroom.

For all this mayhem, the community stood as one, with politics set aside. Lest we forget.

Kenneth Bowker, Vesper Walk, Huntington, York