Liverpool

Please Send The Curlers

However, David did tell me that when he saw Lewis's Liverpool van parked outside a house in the...

The Missing Bomb

As he listened to the crump of exploding bombs and the sharper crack of anti-aircraft guns Jim found...

Through the eyes of a child: Memories of Portsmouth and Liverpool

I am wakened early - it's still dark as we catch the bus to Portsmouth Station -will the planes come...

An Evacuee's War

I remember the Drill Hall, the lemonade and cakes and the official welcome by the Mayor of Rhayader and the...

The War Through the Eyes of a Child

I loved being there but mother hated it and arranged for her brother to take us to her own parents in Sale,...

Memories of Tarleton

Gorse Farm” was a cosy, homely place, “Auntie” and “Uncle” as we called our...

Teaching in Devon and Rescue work in Birkenhead and Merseyside

The young lady teacher was was in fact a Chagford girl, who after qualifying had got a post in a London...

Tweedale's War Part 12

As a reward for my services to King and Country I later received four medals and the appropriate ribbons:...

My Wartime Experiences

Being an A.R.P. warden he would have been told that in future church bells would not be rung unless as a...

A Wireless Child

When the war got serious and the Government too important to be satirised Handley became in succession...

Confessions of a Runner

Already, anti- aircraft balloons had appeared being flown from ships in the River Mersey and this was...

Liverpool Schoolboy: Terror of Raids, Blackout, Rationing, Horse-drawn Vehicles

Bombs also fell on the coal sidings at Knotty Ash....

Philip's War Part 2

Eventually, a WVS woman came over and explained that Mrs Roberts only wanted two children; our hearts sank....

My War at School and at Home

During a raid on Bromley on the 16/17th April 1941, I remember laying awake in my bunk and seeing the house...

Childhood War Memories: Crayford and Litherland

Shortly afterwards, my parents moved to Crayford in Kent and my paternal grandparents moved from Formby to...

My Evacuation Memories of World War 2

On the evacuation away from the bombing of Liverpool while we were waiting for the train to leave the...

Olive the WREN in Liverpool

I shared a cabin with several WRENs until I gained promotion to Petty Officer WREN - I was then moved to a...

A Child's Story

Another rented house was found at 11 Endsleigh Gardens, Upton by Chester, and I started at Hollybank...

Memories Buried In Their Minds, For Ever and Ever.

Liverpool: Meols: Farndon- North Wales: Tripoli- Libya and Marsa Matruh- Egypt. Liverpool: Meols: Farndon-...

My Memories of Evacuation: From Liverpool to North Wales

Brynffinon was about 1½ miles from the village of Sarn and every Wednesday, when Mr. and Mrs. Roberts...

'War Years of George Family from Walton Village'

My father Frederick was just 16 yrs old when he became the manager of the local butchers shop called...

Pat's War in Liverpool and around

A few weeks after war broke out Pat was sent to Bridgenorth with a friend called Bunty Linacre. As things...

Suffering Moses - The Early Years

Poland had fallen in rapid fashion and in the mist and snow of that winter, the Germans were massing in the...

A Liverpool Evacuee: Bombing of the Docks, Life in Millionaire's Home in Uttoxeter

A Liverpool Evacuee: Bombing of the Docks, Life in Millionaire's Home in Uttoxeter. Apart from my mum...

Mother On the Home Front

I was living with my Mum at the top of an old-fashioned house in Birkenhead when I had my first real...

Battle of Britain 1940: My Dads D.C.M. at Buckingham Palace and the day I saw the King.