NEIGHBOURS living next to a WWII enthusiast have said his air raid siren is "so loud" it sends "chills down their spines". Ray Fricker, 67, has spent 14 years amassing roughly 900 pieces that now cover the rooms and walls of his dining room in his 1901-built three-bed home, in Droylsden, Greater Manchester. 8 Ray Fricker in the World War museum he curated in his three bed home Credit: SWNS 8 Neighbours Marguerite Young, Tom Hunter and Gerry Goodwin react to the loud noise Credit: SWNS 8 Ray operating the Air Raid Siren in his garden Credit: SWNS The collection that makes up his dedicated 'war room' includes carvings from POW camps and letters from soldiers.
He also has an unexploded bomb, machine guns and gas masks. "I've got a shell that landed on the British side in World War One when they were battling," he told the Manchester Evening News . "It went straight down into the dugouts, and it never went off.
" One of his most prized possessions is his authentic World War Two air raid siren, which would have told residents to run for cover as Nazi bombers flew over Britain. And those living in the beautiful 125-year-old quiet cul-de-sac have said Ray's siren can be heard "a couple of miles away". Dad-of-two Tom Hunter, 59, a retired senior aircraftman who served in the RAF for 15 years, told The Sun: "You can hear it and feel it.
It makes a hell of a noise. "He let it off on June 6 for the 80th anniversary of D-day, but it usually only goes off twice a year – on VE day and New.
