Food for thought
A life-changing wartime Christmas
Crouched down, seasick and cold, Albert Hewitt peered into the dark Atlantic night. Any enemy submarines around? With swell as high as the dummy funnel he’d climbed, he couldn’t see much. At 4am, the end of his four hour watch, Albert found himself unable to descend, so spent another miserable four hours up there. What … Read More
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One wartime weekend
Emerging from her Covid-hibernation in time for her ninetieth birthday, Rita remains a lively character. Welcomed into the world as the source of a few more union pennies during the bitter miners’ strike, Rita’s resilience no doubt owes much to her Lancashire roots. But it was events from her school-leaving weekend, aged 14, that have … Read More
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