What Happened Here?
Wartime Horrors
by Christopher Fox (15)

Enjoying more peaceful times Rose is 72 years old. The event that Rose remembers most strongly: In 1977 the people living in our street celebrated Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee, the street I lived in had a big party to celebrate. Absolutely everybody took part. The party went on all day late on into the night, what was good was the fact that it gave us a chance to meet everyone and even those we hadn't had a chance to meet before. About Rose: I was born in Scotland Road, Liverpool. Scotland Road is not that far away from where I live now, it was a very dangerous during the war due to the bombings. It was absolutely terrible for me and my family, mainly because of the air raids. They were so frightening because as soon as the siren went off everyone knew they had to get to a shelter quickly. My brother was an air raid warden and he had to see some horrific things, he once went round houses which had been bombed and he found our grandmother buried in the rubble which used to be her house. He had to take his own grandmother and put her in a coffin. There were many people killed and also many from my family. My brother, the air raid warden, went to the local parish during the air raid to warn those at a meeting that was going on inside. He left the shelter that we were in to go and warn those at the meeting of the air raid. I never saw him again. We knew he had died but it was only confirmed when my other brother went into town to see the memorial for all those who had died there. Right at the top was the name of our brother. Before that had happened, my mother who was evacuated to North Wales was in an old school that was used as an air raid shelter while bombs were falling. A bomb must have fell onto the school and a large blackboard fell on her. She was taken to hospital where we went to visit her, but she died on the Thursday only a day before our brother died. So I ended up losing a mother and brother in less than a week. Rose has lived in the neighbourhood for 69 years Why did Rose come here? The house my family and I had previously lived in was much too small for us all to live in, so we ended up moving into this area. We had to move anyway as the house we had been living in and the other houses surrounding it had been devastated by air raids and there wasn't any way we could have gone back there.