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This story was submitted to the Peoples War site by Edna Eaton.
I remember that when the air raid sirens would sound we had to go and hide under the stairs because we did not have an air raid shelter. Then eventually brick air raid shelters were built in the road, we would take all of the things we would need for the night and stay until it was safe to come out. I lived by the Aigburth golf course when the artillery solders took over.
Money was collected up for the soldiers for cigarettes and food.
I remember the ration books and getting sweet rations for the month. I remember my mother cooking with the powdered eggs that came in a large tin like baby milk. And my mother would by liquid paraffin to bake cakes with instead of butter. I would have to make do with unpicking adults cloths and stitching them to fit us children.

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