Marged, Both my parents worked at the "Automatic Telephone Company" in Edge Lane, both before and after the War, Mum was an air-raid nurse in Liverpool throughout the war while Dad was in the Army doing convoy duty up and down England and also in France - Dunkirk. While home on leave I remember dad wrapping my up in the blanket off my bed and throwing my over his shoulder like Father Christmas with his presents, but I was terrified of the noise the bombs where making even when we got to an air-raid shelter I must of been only two years old. I was born 08-01-1939. It was while working at the "Automatic Telephone Company"that my parents met one another. Have you got any history on the "Automatic Telephone Company"? Ron.