Sirens Signalled Scramble for Shelter As Bombs Fell ; Jean Farr Looks Back to a Time of Air Raids, Hymns and Unwanted Spirits During the Second World War, Writes Liz Rowley

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SHE might have only been three years old, but memories of the Second World War still ring clear in Jean Farr's mind. The 68-year- old retired specialist nursery nurse spent her childhood in Middleport, and taking cover during the air raids is something she'll never forget.

"I was one of six eventually, but it was just my older brother and I who were born during the war," explains the grandmother of four, who went to Middleport infants and senior schools. "When the sirens went off, my mother Phyllis Nash would get us out of bed, put us both into a pram and run down to my grandparents' house in Brindley Street. We were living at Newport Lane at the time in a cottage that was built by Enoch Wood for the workers at his pottery factory. They were very basic homes; the sink and the cold water tap were outside and so was the toilet," she adds. "We had no electricity, gas mantles lit the rooms downstairs and candles provided light upstairs, but we were very happy there."

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Sirens Signalled Scramble for Shelter As Bombs Fell ; Jean Farr Looks Back to a Time of Air Raids, Hymns and Unwanted Spirits During the Second World War, Writes Liz Rowley

The journey from Newport Lane to Brindley Street seemed lengthy to a frightened three-year-old, especially as the trio would take shelter b...

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