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John Burns was Chair of the Dingle History Group. He was born, raised and died in Dingle in 2022, aged 87. […]
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I was seven when war was declared in September 1939. I was the youngest in the family. There was: Mum; […]
As prepared for my grandchildren. I was fifteen and a half and living in North Liverpool, not far from the […]
I was born and grew up in Manchester from 1921 onwards. I must say that as a young boy, in […]
I was four when the war started. The previous May we had moved from Antonio Street, Bootle, to Haselbeech Crescent, […]
I was four when the war started, so shortages seemed the norm, I suppose. I do remember we often ran […]
I was in a reserved occupation and so I was at home in Aintree during the war. As I was […]
When I visited the ‘Spirit of the Blitz’ Exhibition in Liverpool Central Library, I realized that my experiences of WW2, […]