back   The impact of the war   Listen to Doris Baker remember collecting gas masks. | © Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, City Sound Archive back to story ‘In 1938 the crisis came up and I remember, I think it was then that we went to collect our gas masks. I remember one of the neighbours walking up the croft in tears and she said: ‘Oh, Mrs Baker. They have no gas masks for children.’ And she had a little boy pushing in a pram, and she was so unhappy because they had nothing. Eventually they got something. Children were encased in a sort of bag and air came through a filter. And of course you had a gas mask case.’

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