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This story has been added to the People’s War website by Anne Wareing of the Lancashire Home Guard on behalf of Marjory Whitfield an has been submitted to the site with her permission…

I was 2 years old when the war started and living in Upholland, about 10 miles away from Liverpool. Liverpool of course was heavily bombed during the war, but according to the older people in the area not a lot happened in Upholland, it was a fairly quiet area.

I do remember the ‘grown ups’ talking about spitfires. I didn’t know at the time they were fighter aircraft and I remember coming home from school one day with some other children and we saw an object in a field that seemed to be spitting out fire and I ran home with the news that there was a spitfire on the ground in a field. It must have been a surprise for my family to hear that a spitfire had landed in a field near by, sadly it was nothing as exciting as that, it turned out to be an incendiary device being let off by a group of servicemen on a training mission.

My husband told me that that he remembered going with his Grandfather to watch the bombs dropping on Liverpool and he recalled seeing fires raging high in to the sky and the noise of the guns and anti aircraft fire.

I was a little older on VE Day and Upholland celebrated along with everyone else, it was a wonderful day, the Victoria pub had a piano outside and everyone sang and danced.

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