Liverpool

Austin Family in the War -Part 1

As her brother had not returned from worked she was worried and went down to the docks the following day to...

Experience of My War Aged 7 Years: Evacuated from Birkenhead to Llandidloes.

Experience of My War Aged 7 Years: Evacuated from Birkenhead to Llandidloes. In 1939 i was 7 years old and...

Tower Building Air Raids

During the German air raids over Liverpool in 1941, my father was working for Ellermans Shipping Line in...

POW Camp

When we would go to bed we would hear the sirens and then we had to get into the air raid shelters...

Mum's Teddy Bear

The docks in Liverpool were a prime target, and the Wirral was apparently, regualry bombed, because of...

The Sailor 'Digs His Heels In'!

Her father did not want his daughter to suffer unease or to be 'marked' by a smallpox vaccination...

Firemen to Normandy

We only know about this because he had left us some military maps of the Brecon Beacons area, which were...

A Childhood Memory of Liverpool in Wartime

I was a small child during the Second World War and lived on Queens Drive, West Derby, Liverpool... I...

A Nurse in the Blitz: In Liverpool

I was a student nurse at Sefton General Hospital, Smithdown Rd, Liverpool, during the May Blitz of 1941....

Was After Me?

The Education Department decided to send all the pupils from our ed Protestant school to a local Catholic...

Nursing at Alder Hey

Eventually, the hospital started to take German soldiers; British officers were stood on guard outside to...

How I Almost Sabotaged the War Effort!

A road in Anfield called Breckside Park was being used to park Sherman Tanks prior to the D-Day landings....

View From the Water Front

At the time I woudl have been 7 years old, I can remember Liverpool being on fire; the docks seemed to be...

Air Raid Sirens

I remember that when the air raid sirens would sound we had to go and hide under the stairs because we did...

Blackout Memory

All house windows in our street had thick curtains of a black material, which were drawn as soon as it got...

Yes, We Have No Bananas

We had little food and only a jug and basin with cold water to wash in... I made trousers for the boys...

A Boy's Brush with the Enemy

During the war we often had German bombers flying over our village to drop their bombs on Liverpool which...

My Wartime Experiences

I joined the Girls training corps and I worked at Norah Wellings Toy factory in Wellington and then at Mrs...

Chicken for Dinner

At Christmas we'd kill some of the birds for the Christmas dinner, my sisters and myself used to pluck...

When we heard the sirens.

Our next-door neighbour had to share our shelter because she only had a table to provide cover when the...

Wallasey in the Blitz

I spoke to my parents just before they died regarding their memories of Wallasey in the war,mum in...

A Lucky Escape

It was the other nurses turn to attend but Nell volunteered to go instead of her as she had just returned...

Alan and Joan's Story

My Nan was a gunner on the anti-aircraft battery and my Grandad was the radar operator, tracking enemy...

Durning Road Air Raid Shelter

My mum walked into town to go to the air raid shelter on the corner of White chapel with my two brothers......

The Cat Who Caught the Horse

Father, who was in the fire service on the docks, found himself longing for a piece of steak. My mother...

My Mum in Liverpool: Bombed Out Three Times

I have heard many different stories, but the most memorable is the number of times that they had to leave...