I remember the incident of the German bomber machine-gunning along the Ouse very well (Wartime memories, Letters, March 14).

I had just left York railway station where I had been to meet my grandmother, she came from Birmingham, in order to spend Christmas with my family.

As we left the station this tremendous roar went almost overhead, and I saw it in a flash, with all the noise you would expect.

What has always stayed with me was my gran’s remarks. She said: “Bloody Jerry has followed me here.”

I do not remember the siren going off. There was also a story that some soldiers had been killed near a boatyard. Whether there is any truth in this I don’t know.

Bob Burrows, Patterdale Drive, York.