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

Lottie Scrimshaw remembers which streets were bombed:-

There was a shelter in Spellow Lane, they were all in it underneath. There was a school bombed near Spellow Lane. Then there was Everton Valley, we weren鈥檛 far from there. The bank was bombed, there was a lot of damage. My husband was out fire watching then.

Fire watching, was this his job?

No, it was voluntary. When he was called out he had to go. Perhaps out all night and then go to work the next day.

Did you get most of the information about the war from radios and newspapers?

Yes, but you could hear them coming over. We had it every day around Walton, planes and that.

Was it a frightening time for you?

Well, yes it was really.

Did you lose anyone from your family, or any friends?

No, not in the bombing, no.

Did the fashions change during the war?

Well, you couldn鈥檛 get them, could you? Two and eleven for a hat or one and eleven if you were lucky. Sixpence halfpenny for stockings.

You said your father was killed. Was this during the war? What was he doing at the time?

He was in the army. He had a false knee cap and he was gassed. My mother never got anything because her doctor sent her to Manchester for the tribunal for the army and they said she wasn鈥檛 entitled to a pension. He went mad, the doctor, he knew it was through the war that he was gassed. If they could get away with it, they would.

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