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This episode of the war took place in Premier Street Everton Liverpool during the Blitz in May 1941. We lived in a house without any air raid shelter, but further down the street thay had cellars which had been reinforced by the Corporation and the people living there allowed several families living nearby to take shelter whenever the sirens sounded and things became too uncomfortable in the noise of bombs falling and the ack ack firing.

We had been subject to bombardment for several nights, all being spent in the shelter, and considering ourselves lucky to have escaped so far. Meanwhile I had already volunteered for the cyclists messenger service in the ARP and spent one night a week in the Police Bridewell in St. Anne Street In the Town. (To be continued)

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