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My mother, sister and I spent 1939 and 1940 in St Ives in Cornwall. We returned to the family home in Birkenhead in December 1940 just in time for the first bombing in our area.
In the March 1940 Blitz a parachute bomb exploded above our house and rendered it unfir for habitatation. If it had reached the ground I would not be here!
For two years we lived in Liverpool, just in time for the May 1940 Blitz. I continued to attend school in Birkenhead, but for that period, there was no way to cross the Mersey. The underground railway was out of action with several stations unusable, the ferries could not sail because of an exploding ammunition ship in mid-stream, and the recently opened Mersey Tunnel was reserved entirely for the emergency services. The General Post Office in Liverpool was one of the casualties, and post into and out of Liverpool had to be sent to Manchester for sorting. My father was therefore surprised to receive a postcard from the school asking for an explanation of my absence.
When I returned to the school some thirty six years later, as a teacher, not a pupil, I had the pleasure of adding the post card to the school archive.

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