Transcript: My name is Gwyn Dodd. I was headteacher Denbigh High School until August 2004. I was born in 1939 so I started school in Ysgol Fron Goch in the infants section, which is where the law courts are now, in about 1943, and it was of course during the War years. What I remember is the blackouts, the school was dark and the windows permanently covered in paint or in some kind of blackout cover. I can remember the impact of the American soldiers when they were stationed in Denbigh and one of the things the Americans had was plenty of sweets, or candy as they called it, and of course in particular chewing gum, and that was something we'd never had. So we'd go around chasing Americans and asking for chewing gum and "Any gum, chum?" was the password for that. I can also remember refugees coming in from Liverpool and Birkenhead and they always came to school so my class had local children of course in Fron Goch and also a number of refugees. Now one of the things that I remember distinctly was that a siren would go but it wasn't the town siren to tell us there was an air raid, it was the warning in the quarry that they were going to blast, and when this siren went the refugee children used to dive under their desks and that was something we thought was extremely funny because we didn't understand that they'd gone through some bombing in Liverpool or Birkenhead. But it wasn't until I was much older that I realised what they were doing and why they did it. I can remember very clearly also the VE Day, that's Victory in Europe Day, where there were street parties and I can remember thinking two things: one, that we would have white bread. People used to say to me, "Oh well when the war's over you'll have white bread", instead of this grey, dark, ugly-coloured bread and I expected the day afterwards to see white bread on the table but that didn't come for a long time. And I also expected to see my father home, but he was in the army and he was stationed in various parts of England but he didn't return home for a few months after that but I fully expected him home the day the war ended.