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Here is Wilmor Evans' piece on his memories of the war.

During the period that the Germans were bombing Liverpool, we local people at Acrefair — some 20 to 30 of us — sheltered in a head-high tunnel. Water usually ran through the tunnel but it was temporarily dried up — lucky for us!
A local elderly character took charge of us. He had fathered 22 children! Those of us still around have always remembered him saying "They can bloody well 'em anywhere, so long as they don’t drop ‘em on us!" Once the all clear was sounded he was the first out and would say: "Well, the chimneys are still up!"
Bombs had been dropped near us on Garth mountain and had set on fire the dry gorse bushes. To mislead the Germans it was allowed to burn — and did so for 7 days when it burned out.
I have a piece of shrapnel I collected from a bomb crater, just half a mile from where I live.

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