I joined the railway in 1934 as a junior engine cleaner but was used as a 'knocker up' getting...
When the bad air raids took place, my mother took my baby sister and me to my Grandma and Grandad...
One night I reported back to the hospital Medical Superintendent for duty, having been called out by the...
I remember many people being killed in Liverpool when the Domestic Science School was bombed, they were hit...
On 1 September 1939, two days before the Second World War broke out I was evacuated to Westhead near...
He worked on the trams, after his shift, he would open the cellar door, we would all be there, my mum...
In those days, one of the favourite tricks of the young lads was to wait for lorries to come round the bend...
My Uncle slept in the attic and when he went up there he found a big hole in the roof and lying...
Because of the docks Liverpool was bombed nightly. The planes had arrived by sea at the docks and were...
One of my vivid memories was going to bed and seeing the warehouse that used to be outside my flats and had...
We went to the grotto to see Father Christmas, we always got a parcel wrapped in coloured paper, they cost...
While making nightcaps for those who couldn't sleep, I tried to think of some way to make it like...
Adults and children running fast,To find a shelter before the blast.You saw the sky a bloody red,The blood...
I lived in Norris Green then and as a young girl had lots of fun, we used to go to dances twice...
The ack ack guns replied in deadly earnest, to put a stop to the bombers awful games, but the whistling...
Edward was looking in Picton library recently and came across a chapter in a book on the blitz and Mrs Taft...
One German plane came over and dropped some bombs. We went to Milan and met German soldiers who didn't...
I worked in Dominion Buildings, an old narrow group in South Castle Street which was a fringe commercial...
When the night time came he donned his uniform to patrol the streets of Bootle, and many times helped to...
Life in St Helens was much the same as life in South Wales, most of the men and boys went to work...
He also helped to lite the bonfires on fields,which later became Skelmsdale,to try to fool the german...
The nurses were: Sister Morris, nurses Webb, Morgan and Roberts. The men who rescued me: Rifleman Henry...
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