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this story has been submitted to the Peoples War website by GMR Action Desk on behalf of Marje O’Farrell and has been added to the site with her permission.

The Germans marched into Poland on my seventh birthday. As a child I remember going into the air-raid shelter under the railway on Frog lane in Wigan. Nowadays I think that probably wasn’t so clever putting an air raid shelter under the railway! But then it was only the Southport Line! And in the shelter there were rows and rows of forms for us to sit on and we used to go outside and look at the searchlights and planes and the barrage balloons over Liverpool. At that age we didn’t realise how serious it was - at the time we just thought ‘oh wow- look at this!’ When the all clear went and we used to come out it always seemed to be as I remember a beautiful beautiful moonlight night- probably it wasn’t every night but that’s how I remember it. II sometimes wonder if the air raid shelter is still there- - because I’d like to see it again and remember when I was a little girl- I’ve never forgotten those times.

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