{"id":1339,"date":"2020-12-30T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1339"},"modified":"2020-12-31T13:07:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T13:07:50","slug":"during-the-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1339","title":{"rendered":"During the War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>At first it wasn\u2019t that real but as the ships started coming back without soldiers we\u2019d waved off it was very sad. I remember the injured soldiers at Woolton Woods hospital. I used to get the tram with them. They had lovely blue uniforms.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I don\u2019t think I was ever that hungry despite rationing. We made bread pudding, in a big gravy tin. We ate tripe and dripping. Pigs feet. And Cow heels.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It was shilling for salt fish. Came round on a cart on a Sunday. The fish was so hard we played cricket or tennis with it but didn\u2019t tell me mam.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My mam said, we if caught outside during a bombing raid, make for the Jewish synagogue steps because ironically Hitler\u2019s bombers kept missing the place.&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I was evacuated with my sister Josie, to North Wales \u2013 Brymbo. It was next door to a giant steelworks. We hated it because we never got any jam butties &#8211; the people that took us in weren\u2019t that friendly and spoke about us in Welsh. So we ran away and started walking down the railway track to reach the train station. We got caught and told off and mam came and got us.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"598\" height=\"411\" src=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Brymbo_west_1925.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Brymbo_west_1925.jpg 598w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Brymbo_west_1925-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Brymbo_west_1925-436x300.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><figcaption>Brymbo West Crossing Halt. <br>Photo http:\/\/www.disused-stations.org.uk\/b\/brymbo_west_halt\/index.shtml<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-blue-color\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1348\">Liverpool Humour<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first it wasn\u2019t that real but as the ships started coming back without soldiers we\u2019d waved off it was very sad. I remember the injured soldiers at Woolton Woods hospital. I used to get the tram with them. They &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=1339\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1313,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1339"}],"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=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1339\/revisions\/1355"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}