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My husband was born in Liverpool in 1935. He lived in Southey St., off Marsh Lane, with his parents, near to his grandparents, the Macleans. During air-raids, if he was playing out with his older brother, John, the warden would pop them down the "coal-holes" for safety. These were covered chutes leading to the coal cellars. At night they could see and hear the bombers going over the city towards the docks. They all used to run across the road to a house with a cellar.
He and John used to pick up the warm shrapnel in the street, and keep it in a tin box. During one of these times a plane came over. John ran into his grandparents house, which was hit by a bomb, killing them all, and destroying the house. There is still a gap between the houses. He remembers the warden coming to tell his mam they were dead. He handed her a purse and a rosary, then they all cried on the step.
At the end of the war they were taken to Huyton in Jarvis Robinson's Transport (meat wagons) to wait for the clean up. From there they moved to St.John's Road, Bootle, where he spent the rest of his childhood.

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