Gday Marged, It always amazes me why some people were evacuated from one hot spot to another. I lived in Litherland and right across the road from our house was the Diamond Match works,behind the house was the railways,both were bombed and we had evacuees put into our home from London, there must have been far more safer places to be sent. Bert in Oz Marged wrote: >It's funny you should mention the country, Audrey, because one of the children did ask would people out in the country still be able to keep bees and get honey - "Oh yes", I said "And they would keep chickens and have more than our ration of one egg per week - and the would keep pigs and be able to have more bacon and pork" > >Marged > > > The culture shock of a different language and rural farming area would have > been extreme. i know one of mother's friends son suffered all his life as a > result. We were 5 when war broke out. His faather had lost a leg in the > First World war. > Audrey > -- > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Gday to you Bill - yes, we had a lady and a new baby staying with us for some months, after Liverpool's May Blitz, but while the bombing and the Buzz Bombs were still going on in London. We were very close to the "Automatic Telephone Company" in Edge Lane, which had been transformed into a munitions factory, so Gerry was always after bombing that, but he always missed Marged Gday Marged, It always amazes me why some people were evacuated from one hot spot to another. I lived in Litherland and right across the road from our house was the Diamond Match works,behind the house was the railways,both were bombed and we had evacuees put into our home from London, there must have been far more safer places to be sent. Bert in Oz Marged wrote: >It's funny you should mention the country, Audrey, because one of the children did ask would people out in the country still be able to keep bees and get honey - "Oh yes", I said "And they would keep chickens and have more than our ration of one egg per week - and the would keep pigs and be able to have more bacon and pork" > >Marged > >