- Contributed by
- ateamwar
- People in story:
- Mrs M
- Location of story:
- Liverpool
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A4813517
- Contributed on:
- 05 August 2005
This story appears courtesy of and with thanks to The Liverpool Diocesan Care and Repair Association and James Taylor
It was only a small shelter, but we made it that it was alright. Across one end we made a bed so my daughter could sleep there. Most of the time she slept through it anyway. You’d hear bang, bang and all the rest of it and there she’d be asleep. My friend, her husband, her mother and myself would sit in the middle. We’d be in and out of the shelter and saying “Here’s another one coming,” and we’d all be ducking. Sometimes we were in all night. During the May 1941 Blitz, the big blitz of Liverpool, we were in every night and sometimes during the day.
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