One of the worst things was the setting up of rest centres in bootle to have them destroyed except for one. This led to the visit of King George 6 and the Queen Mother while my grandfather was Mayor in 1942-3. -- ±There was concern for the morale of the population. Large numbers were bombed out, including ±Richard owen Jones ±RO and his daughter Elizabeth, who left bank Road and moved to 3 kaigh Avenue, ±B±Great crosby. So the mayor no longer lived in the Borough. Audrey NZ± > From: Marged <marged36@btopenworld.com> > Reply-To: eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:39:01 +0100 > To: eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Jess' Liverpool site and WW2 > > Margaret, how I wish I had initiated this discussion BEFORE I went to St > Patrick's - the children would have loved to hear your story, especially about > going to stay in the holiday camp. > > You should certainly write that book to pass down through the family, even if > it doesn't get published. > > My own dad was in the Royal Navy throughout the war and had been with the > Cunard Line before war broke out - his picture was on the wall yesterday. > > Marged > > Thanks for that Jess. A facinating site. I was particularly interested in > the Camell Laird link. My brother was doing his marine draughtman > apprenticeship with them and he did his practical on the Ark Royal. > On the subject of WW2 I was 6 when it started. And living in the comparative > safety of Bromborough Wirral. For some reason best known to herself my Mum > decided to help the war effort by going to work at the factory in Capenhurst > and so sent us- my brother and I- to live with our grandparents in Index St. > Liverpool. I went to Arnott St. School during our time there. And was very > proud to be at the school my Mum went to with her brother and 2 sisters. I > remember well the nights spent in the nearby Air Raid shelter and the > cameraderie,singing and sharing of refreshments that went on. We were not > there on the fateful night when Index St. was laid waste by bombs. My > Grandparents came out of the shelter to find their home gone. They went to > live in Towyn North Wales on a holiday campsite. They had one of the old > railway carriages there and us kid thought it was the best place to stay!! > My cousins who lived in Bootle were evacuated to Kimnel Bay and shared the > house with a family of refugees from The Channel Islands. They were market > gardeners and grew the most fantastic carrots and tomatoes in the garden!! > There are so many memories. I could write a book!! My own Grandchildren love > to hear what it was like to live through a war. For our parents it must have > been a most anxious time. Particularly for Mums and their kids whithout Dad > who was away fighting. My Dad was in the Royal Navy as were his brothers. > All of them experienced seafarers before the out break of war. We were a > very lucky family. All of us came through safely but oh so many didn't. > Thank you Marged for initiating the discusion. Very relevant I think for our > Merseyside list. Margaret in Australia > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >