The War Years

A Memory of Heswall.

I am now 86, but in 1941 until 1945 I lived in Heswall. My family has been evacuated from Jersey in the Channel /islands and we lived in several places before finally coming to Heswall. there was a refugee school for Guernsey and Jersey Children in Irby. I used the walk to school each day, it took me over half an hour to do it. There used to be a big moorland on one side of the road where Gypsies used to camp twice a year. My Grandmother had gypsy blood and i used to play with the children when they camped there. The school was the Village Hall set back on a patch of brambles.

We lived in Whitfield Lane and my mother had a part time job in the grocers in the lower Village. Later when Ieft school at 16 I had a job in a bakery run by a Miss Atherton. I remember Sandy Lane, and the library where I read so much they rn out of books in the childrens section. I used to go to the Saturday
childrens matines at the cinema to see Flash Gordon serials.

At the bottom of Whitfield Lane there was a long road , Milner road leading over moorland and fields with a ting footpath leading to Barnston. I'll never forget that time.. it was a lovely place.
Dolores Ashcroft, now Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

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