{"id":1313,"date":"2020-12-29T20:40:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T20:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1313"},"modified":"2021-01-02T15:10:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T15:10:31","slug":"jacks-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1313","title":{"rendered":"Jack&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>My Family<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I was born in the early 30s \u2013 I had three sisters, two brothers and I was the youngest.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My family came over of course like many Irish immigrants \u2013 dad\u2019s dad I think was the first generation in Liverpool. My mum had lovely red hair, and was from Chester. I remember my aunties had the same red hair. Aunty Martha had a fruit and veg cart. My uncle sold rabbits and meat in the Old Market.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The first home I remember was Carver Street, off Islington, three stories, with an outside toilet. All factories to one side, a garment factory, a lemonade factory called Strawsons and in the corner Gibsons sausages. It was a real community we were able to play out in the street.&nbsp;&nbsp;One day mam couldn\u2019t find her shoes and it was because I\u2019d taken them to play football.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Carver-Street.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Carver-Street.jpg 960w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Carver-Street-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Carver-Street-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Carver-Street-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Carver Street as it intersects with Canterbury Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I remember the war, one of my earliest memories was of a zeppelin, came across the Mersey. I remember thinking why does an aircraft have no wings?I felt really safe as a kid. Our street felt<\/strong> <strong>safe there were no cars. There were posts at either end to stop the traffic. Everyone knew each other. Most people on the street were Catholic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1325\">My School.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\"><strong>F<a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1334\">ootball<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1339\">During the War<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\"><strong>L<a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1348\">iverpool Humour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1356\">First Job in Liverpool<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1363\">After the War<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1370\">Pubs in Liverpool<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Family I was born in the early 30s \u2013 I had three sisters, two brothers and I was the youngest.&nbsp; My family came over of course like many Irish immigrants \u2013 dad\u2019s dad I think was the first generation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1313\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1313\/revisions\/1382"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}