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| My Nan and Grandad on their wedding day in 1958 |
Frances and Dennis Ryder is 62 years old.
The event that Frances and Dennis Ryder remembers most strongly:
My Nan and Grandad remember different things but my Nan remembers the Second World War the most.
She remembers when she was a little girl, she was taken to the air raid shelter as there was a bomb warning. They would be very cramped as the whole of the neighbour hood would be there. People would either sit on beds or the floor or they would stand up. The young children would try to keep their minds off the bombs dropping outside by playing games with each other and their parents.
They would be there until the "all clear" siren was put on. Sometimes they would be there all day and all night. My Nan remembers this because she was only a young girl and it was very traumatic.
About Frances and Dennis Ryder:
My Grandad and Nan are both 62 years old.
My Grandad remembers being evacuated from his home with his sister and brother. They were sent to the Isle of Anglesey and to a small village in the south called Molfrey.
A married couple offered to let the three of them stay with them until the war ended. Some of the evacuees had a great time away from their parents and the violence of the war, however, my granddad and his sister and brother, in their eyes, had the worst time of their life.
The people that they lived with were not always pleasant. If they didn't eat all of their dinner, it would be presented to them for their next meal or they would have to eat it for their supper. Alternately, they would be sent to bed.
The lady looking after them was good at knitting so she made everyone of them a thick, heavy and hairy scarf. My granddad, his sister, and his brother all refused to wear the scarf which she had made for them. They refused because it was summer and the weather was extremely hot and beside the fact they simply just detested the style and the fabric of which the scarf was made. For refusing to wear the scarf, which she had made for them, her husband hit the three children with a leather belt and sent them to bed without any tea.
My granddads brother, who was the oldest of the three children, wrote home to their mother. His mother was informed of everything the lady had put them through and immediately took all three children and put them in the care of another married couple, who, incidentally, had the same name.
For the rest of the time away from home, all three children had a fun time, apart from the fact that bombs were flying over their parents' head!
Frances and Dennis Ryder has lived in the neighbourhood for 33 years
and came from Kirkdale
Why did Frances and Dennis Ryder come here?
We moved to West Derby from Kirkdale 33 years ago because we had three children and their house was too small.
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