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This story appears courtesy of and with thanks to The Liverpool Diocesan Care and Repair Association and James Taylor

I remember the bombing and having to go in air raid shelters. We had one in our street, a big brick building, and we used to be there for hours, you wonder how you ever coped with it. It was all like a dream. People just listened to the bombs dropping and they were all terrified. I would have been if I’d have had a family, but when you’re young you don’t see danger do you? Where we lived there were land mines around Anfield Road. There was debris everywhere along the road and the shops had their windows blown out. There were a lot of deaths during the war, and whole families were wiped out. Landmines were all lethal.
We carried gas masks, they were like what divers have and they’d fit over your head. We never had any cause to use them, you couldn’t go anywhere without them, and we had identity cards on account of any fires or anything like that.

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