book then goes on to describe Gas masks becoming an item that was necessary at all times, he describes that some companies tried to make fancy cases for the gas masks but they were out of tune with the times due to people not feeling any pride in owning a gas mask. Henry describes the blackouts in wartime London, the shops close at dusk and people travel home. He ends the chapter describing various battles London has overcome. "Wars come to an end, but London goes on "Charlie's Day" pages 15 - 24 Chapter two describes Oak Apple Day, on 29 May up until 1859 people celebrated the birthday of King Charles II, he had been exiled for 12 years and returned to London on his 13th birthday. Henry gives an account of being a child in Warwickshire, the children would collect sprigs of Oak with Oak-Apples attached and attach them to their caps and jumpers. They would then use handkerchiefs or paper to collect stinging nettles. He describes how they would search for boys without the Oak leaves and if any were found to not be wearing them would get stung across his knees or hands with the nettles. Henry goes on to give a description of the "six week wanderings of Charles II after Cromwell had beaten him from hedge to hedge in Worcester". Henry writes that Charles hid in the branches of a great oak for 24 hrs in Boscobel Woods with Colonel Careless. After his restoration the Oak became the symbol of loyalty to the crown, Royal Oak was soon a popular tavern name and on the anniversary villagers would decorate with oak boughs and gilded oak apples. He describes how The Chelsea Pensioners polished their medals and paraded before a statue of King Charles II decorated with oak boughs at The Royal Hospital which he founded. Henry then describes correspondence he had received from a newspaper article he had wrote enquiring about the tradition. In the west of England children would sing "It's Oak Apple Day, The twenty-ninth of may, If you don't give us a holiday, We'll all run away." The other places said to be still following the tradition were Shropshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Burton-on-Trent, Stretton, Belton Loughborough Leicestershire, Fernhurst Sussex, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire and "nearly all the Midland Counties." Horn-Blowers of The Temple pages 25 - 29 Chapter three describes the