My family, Dad Henry, Mum Roberta,Sister Josephine, and Brother Peter, lived in a small terraced house at...
I was married on 10th May 1941 at St Bartholomew's Church Rock Ferry, to Darcy Hesketh and we held our...
Rather than put the girls in a Home, my Mum and Dad moved in with Uncle Frank Jones at Grove Street,...
Unbeknown to me then, Mum & Dad put me down for this scheme but had second thoughts after the...
The farmer`s son, Cledwyn, had a beautiful voice and we learned to sing the hymns too... Eventually, after...
I made some good friends at Aldergrove and I have kept in touch with one — albeit only by lengthy...
Back home in the town by the river Mersey, my father, who was an ARP warden, had noted that the strongest...
I remember seeing guns patrolling the streets, air-raid wardens around Myrtle Street, the smell of burning...
While taking a short cut through Bold Street we came across a number of bodies blown to pieces by the...
Eventually over sixteen thousand of them were camped there, with the racecourse turned into a vast parking...
One bomb landed a short distance away at a house at the back of Townsend Avenue creating a very large...
We had a white wedding, however as there were very few clothes coupons so I borrowed a wedding dress from...
My great nanna was also told that my great-great grandma's street had been bombed... My great nanna...
Prior to 1939 my family moved from Liverpool to a small bungalow outside Wrexham....
Early one morning in mid August about 20 Boy Scouts assemble at Liverpool, Exchange Station for the train...
On the other side of the ship in the cabin opposite my brothers, my sister aged 10 and myself very nearly...
Mary Pritchard nee Stewart was always known as “Maisie”, was born in Everton, in Liverpool on...
After eating his lunch, David will gasp his way the mile or so back to school, where his teachers, all...
Her husband, my “step grandfather” was my Uncle Jack, a marvellous gentleman, who was about 60...
My father said that it would be safer if my mother drove the four children up to the Lake District, and...
Her entries as a teenager during the war years seem to show how normal life went on around the horror of...
Being small, we used to be able to get into these very hot coal- burning boilers, into the wings and places...
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