大象传媒

I was aged five when the war broke out in 1939 ,the youngest child of nine .my three elder brothers were called up and went into RAF and army.my father was a ARP warden as he had served inthe first world war.We had our cellar made into a air raid shelter where we would go to when the siren went we had beds down there.My mother always stayed upstairs and didnt seem to be afraid.One night in the May blitz in 1941,wehad a incendary bomb droped on our home and my father was off duty and thied to put the fire out,with the help of soldiers who were billited at the Balfour insitute on the corner of our street.sadly to say the bomb exploded and my father received severe burns to his face and spent a long time in Smithdown Rd Hospital with blood poisoning,My sister and I had to run out of the house across the road to a neighbours shelter and the German plane were fring at us and the soldiers.We seemed not to be afraid.Thank God my brothers came home safe,and my family lived to tell the story,of which there are many .Now 69 I could write a book with my memories

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