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I’m Lillian May Parry. I’m 86.
I was in private service, and when war broke out, I went to work in a home in Rhyl. William and John Jones’ home. They were two brothers. I was there all through the war as the matron’s maid. When the war first broke out, we had children there from Liverpool. Evacuees. Before that, we had the old people from St Asaph, from the workhouse, as they used to say. But the children were there all through the war. They didn’t come right at the beginning, they came a few months after, and then stayed for the rest of the war. I don’t remember how many were there, but a lot. They saw life there that they’d never seen before. They were at the seaside. The schoolmistress came with them, so they had lessons there too. There were babies there too. I liked looking after the children. But I left before the end of the war. I had to come home, because my mother wasn’t very well, so I came back to Gwersyllt. I went to work in a factory- Celanese, in Wrexham.

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