Liverpool

‘War Wounds’

A certain amount of Warship repairs, especially the larger ships, were carried out at Gladstone Dock in...

Bombs in Birkenhead

In the eary 1940s the Liverpool docks were a significant target for the Luftwaffe, and as we lived in...

Home

I can remember arriving at the top of Strathmore Drive... So I walked down Strathmore and reached the house...

Carnoustie sailor torpedoed in Bermuda

My mother's cousin, George Sampson, was in the navy during the war. His ship was torpedoed in Bermuda...

Sand Bag Charlie and the Bootle Scout Troop

And the other was Sand bag Charlie....

My Dads Memories of WW1 and 2

William Patterson Thomas Smith, died 70yrs, From daughter, Wendy Smith aged 67yrs. My memory of 2nd World...

VE Atmosphere

I remember being at Secombe ferry and everybody dancing, singing, the Secombe clock chiming in the hour,...

VE Day

I remember being at Secombe ferry and everybody dancing, singing, the Secombe clock chiming in the hour,...

Sleeping Through The War

Across one end we made a bed so my daughter could sleep there... During the May 1941 Blitz, the big blitz...

Hairy Football

He brought a coconut home, we played football with it for a week before we knew what it was, we thought it...

A Famous Room Mate

In 1943, I finished in the sixth form at St Edwards College and went to University in Liverpool... The...

Memories of Work During Wartime

During Wartime I was a scientific glass blower making eye droppers, babies bottles, and syringes for...

Colwyn Bay

My husband came home, back to Liverpool, and took me to Colwyn Bay... I worked in Ross-On-Sea, that's...

Just six years old

My Nain lived on a very high part of the village and war had just began... It was all ablaze and I...

Talsarnau times

Location: BIRKENHEAD; HARLECH; TALSARNAU, NORTH WALES. Evacuated from Cole Street School, Birkenhead, to...

Difficult Times

Most things were rationed, tea, butter, meat, you know. It was quite difficult really....

Amy's Grandma

My grandma went to school early one morning and she was standing in line with her friend Angela, five...

Lisa's Nan

My nan was sitting in an air raid shelter, her mum and dad were sitting next to her, my dad had his...

A Question of Survival

During the War, my baby sons: Edward and Jackie and I were bombed out of our home in College Street,...

Crying to Come Home

In march 1941, me and one of my sisters went to Abergele, we stayed in a cottage, we went to a Welsh...

Lemonade At Gladstone Dock

Most of us children played on the beach by Gladstone dock. I remember a lady with a big black umbrella, she...

Born during the War

I was born in Liverpool in 1942, in Bootle, at the time my dad worked in Birmingham. I was kept here as...

My thoughts on today, at the Adelphi.

My thoughts on today, at the Adelphi. My thoughts on the V.E. Celebrations held at the Adelphi Hotel,...

Lost Education

Evacuated children came to schools and took up half days, also their teacher came and they were at...

Baby Siren

When my mum was a little girl, my nan was pregnant and they said that they should call the baby siren when...

Memories of Birkenhead

During the war, I was living between Birkenhead and Liverpool- Birkenhead really....