ARP Warden Raymond Peat talks about his first incident.
| "At the Argyle Street incident it
was only a small incident and I wasn't one of the first to arrive
like other incidents. But it was my first one and I found it
terrifying.
I set off in thick fog, the guns and machine guns were firing and in those days, with the big guns you could hear the shells go over. As I went down Anlaby Road in the thick fog, and of course I was getting more and more terrified because I could hardly move and there was shrapnel coming down, and I rode up to the wheels of a train, a passenger train, that had crashed through the gates near Boulevard.
And then I heard a noise and I found my divisional officer had joined me and he'd already been knocked off his bike and said 'come on Ray', he says, 'we've got to get round this', and we went further up the track and we came back up the other side.
There was a big crater at the side of the train in Anlaby Road. And then I continued to Argyle Street and as I turned into Argyle Street I saw ambulances that had arrived, and I thought what on earth had I let myself in for. Because the training had been very friendly and quite comical with some of the names really, but now this was the real thing."
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