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I was five years old at the onset of WW2, we lived at that time in the industrial part of Liverpool straddled between the main power station and the Automatic telephone co both prime targets for the luftwaffe bombers. My father was serving with the Royal Air Force stationed at this period the early days of the war at padgate and the at Speke servicing spitfires. This meant he was able to come home regularly and spend time with my mother and myself.
Later he was posted to Hendon and his visits became far less regular. at the tme of the great blitz on Liverpool he was missing, his letters still preserved show the worry and fear that lay in his heart for us and the rest of the family at this time. my recollections are of being taken down into the Anderson shelter in our backyard with my friend Eric and us sitting there reading comics whilst the adults waited for the all clear to sound.
One night sticks in my mind more than anyother, mr Hayes our airraid warden had poked his head in and told us "it is a big one tonight" at that time there was a rushing sound, and he said "oh my God", this I will never forget. A landmine had almost dropped right upon us, but a gust of wind caught it and carried it away. It dropped some 200 yards away and destroyed a whole road, Grampion Road in fact, killing all who lived there. i remember later we used to play on this bomb sight, never i suppose realising the magnitude of what had happend that night.
Later long after the war it was used as a Cycle speedway track by the local youths, and is now a normal road with families living and working from it.

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