Myrtle Street

A Memory of Bradford.

i was brought up in myrtle street all during the war ...i remember the Tivoli picture house, i well remember the life we lived ...so poor but a real community spirit...our doctor was Dr. Black, up Lapage St. we first went to Bowling Back Lane school then later to St. Peters in Leeds Road....i was 12 in 1945 and well remember the war ending and we kids were sent home from school that morning ...i remember being frightened on the nights the german bombers came, i well remember a bomb falling into St. Peters church in Leeds road...we had to be moved into another street further down Leeds road until the bomb was tackled....our name was Anderson