Liverpool

Joanne Dorrington-How Will Father Christmas Find Us?

Joanne Dorrington-How Will Father Christmas Find Us. We stayed with friend s from Flixton over Christmas,...

The Dhobi Man: Liverpool Blitz

My father was a dhobi man - a washerman - and the family laundry - Wrigley's - was doing well enough to...

A Night To Remember: Liverpool Blitz 1940

I have no idea how long we waited, but after the dust had settled, we could hear the voices of the Air...

Liverpool to Derry to Belfast Mabelle Anderson

My name is Mabelle Anderson and at the beginning of the war I married and my husband was working in...

Bombs in Birkenhead/Evacuation

With the sixpence I took my sister to the Argyle Theatre, we even had enough for some sweets and even had a...

My Jewish "Sister"

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

A Wartime Child in Liverpool

I had a further period of hospitalisation when I contracted Scarlet Fever and was in isolation for some...

Narrow Escape

However a friend, who I called Auntie Nora, was going to the Lake District for a break and offered to take...

Growing up in Liverpool

The day war broke out, as a nine-year-old in Liverpool, I became an evacuee along with my brother and...

Liverpool to London and badk - Wartime Travels

Ronnie was missing over Germany but there were still parties every night at my Liverpool grandparents....

Liverpool Blitz: Firewatching on the Manchester Ship Canal

I had been to Liverpool and I caught the last bus back from Birkenhead to Ellesmere Port. Two friends who...

The School in the North

My father was the baker on the “boys’ side” run by the Presentation Brothers which was...

U-Boats - The Hunter Hunted!

Rescued in a rowing boat and landed in North Africa my sister met and married a major in India with flowers...

The Blitz I won't forget.

Unknown to me, Dad was trying to find out Auntie Annie and his nephew, who were buried in the rubble and...

Growing up during the War

My Gran and Uncle came from Hull as the bombing was bad but after one night they went back home as it...

Childhood Wartime Memories

After the terrific pounding that Liverpool and Bootle endured in May 1941 from enemy bombers, we, as a...

Anecdotes (Some Fishy) from the Home Front, Liverpool

I am reliably informed that during one air raid he was running around the roof tops screaming and shaking...

From Liverpool to Egypt on the SS Andes, 1940 - 1941

"After survivor's leave, I went to Oswestry and thence to Liverpool, where we embarked on the...

The Pacifist Service Unit (PSU)

So on Saturday morning early, I set off on my bicycle, riding through the Mersey Tunnel to The Friends...

Growing up in The War

After the first 6 months my brother and I returned home On returning home to Prenton, the air-raids started...

Some Of My Childhood Memories of World War 2

This meant the railway was a target for the German aircraft to bomb during the blitz. One of my most vivid...

Liverpool Evacuee: Evacuated to Bangor in Wales

Once in Bangor, my brother Ronald, a friend and I were transported with all the others to a local school...

My Liverpool's Still Here

However, we chose to return to our home in Liverpool before the end of the war, unbeknownst to us; Field...

Echos of the Mersey

Liverpool was bombed incessantly and Air-raids were a regular occurance... My Auntie Flo lost her home one...

Automatic Days

Nearby Garston docks took the full brunt of the bombing, as did the docks up and down the Mersey and my...

Evacuees who Ran Away!

I was only 81/2 when I was evacuated from my home in Liverpool, with my brother Gordon, to Llanfair Wales...