Liverpool

David Camp, My Jewish "Sister"

He received a visit from an Austrian Jewess who needed help in getting her younger sister out of Vienna and...

The day war broke out: Evacuated from Liverpool to Denbighshire

I don't remember much of the journey but we endedup in the village of Treffnant in Denbighshire and...

Evacuated From Edge Hill

We attended the Welsh Chapel on Sundays with Auntie Blodwen and Uncle Tom... Edith remembers her little...

WAR CHILD:Evacuation from Liverpool

Quite suddenly there were less men around and my little world had become inhabited by pale-faced women who...

Children of the Blitz

We were an average family and my father was the Chief Bunkering Officer for the port of Liverpool as he had...

Mum and Dad's War

To my mum and dad though, it was new as yesterday and my mum was always keen to tell my brother Howard...

Tell Hitler to Stop the War

And S is for your School of course, a School of great renown Which gave a royal welcome to us poor folk...

WARCHILD

Quite suddenly there were less men around and my little world had become inhabited by pale-faced women who...

Olive Halliwell (Coker): Evacuated from Liverpool to Skelmersdale

I remember standing on Orrell Park station with my gas mask over our shoulder, a little case or bag with my...

Moaning Minnie

We could hear the rumble of the explosions as the planes dropped their bombs on Birkenhead and Liverpool...

My Memories of World War 2: From Orrell Park to Skelmersdale

I remember standing on Orrell Park station with our gas mask over our shoulder, a little case or bag with...

A Young Teacher's First Post

Eventually Birkenhead took over the responsibility of running Llandulas Village Hall and sent a Mrs Roberts...

My Memories of the War

I made it to Birmingham and it was decided that Mary and the children should come home to Liverpool. We...

Memories of the War Years in Liverpool

My father, Charles Graham, lost his leg in the First World War at the age of 19, so he was never...

Recollections of a Teenager's War: Grief and Joy in Liverpool

The German was still machine gunning us as we ran into the shelter.I firmly believe that driver saved our...

Joan Elliott: An Evacuee

We eventually arrived at a village hall in Tarvin, my mother had told my 11 and a half year old sister to...

Evacuation

We went back to Liverpool just before the 8 day bombing of Liverpool, for those 8 days we spent from 6.00pm...

BOY MEETS GIRL

Sidney had arrived a few days before to Liverpool docks, thin, tired and ill he had had Malaria while in...

The War Experience of Bill McNamara

At the end of WW1 the Germans were in a terrible state and had decided to get rid of the Kaiser, of...

Evacuation and the Blitz

WE WOULD STRAIN OUR EARS FOR THE NEXT SOUND … SOMETIMES QUITE A WHILE, THEN IN THE DISTANCE, THE THUD...

The Blitz in Liverpool Remembered

As I was closing the door, I saw a blaze of light very close at hand, and I decided that an incendiary...

Mary: Liverpool Blitz

Dad had gone to bed as usual, he never stayed up late like mam and myself. The realisation tht we has been...

Wartime Memories: Growing Up in Liverpool

We were lucky in St. Helens and didn't suffer much bomb damage compared to Liverpool and Manchester,...

The May Blitz - 1941

I stayed there for three days as I had no clothes and mum was too busy going round the hospitals trying to...

Memories Of The War

Philip and his friends were playing around the first unexploded bomb in Marsh Lane, not realising the...

My Memories of the War Years Between 1939 -1945

Joan was nurse at Alderhay Hospital, Liverpool and my brother had just started his career as a young...