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Originally Posted by Neil
They chopped the iron railings from everyones walls.
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I read somewhere that apparently none of the iron from all the railings were ever used to make munitions.
A bomb exploded on Bent Street (behind the Royal Oak) in Oswaldtwistle. My Grandmother was working at Sam Boot's the bakers, now Martin's at 325 Union Road, and the windows cracked with the force.
There was also a prisoner of war camp on Stanhill moor. There was a BBC2 programme, 'The Germans We Kept', about how the prisoners were taken in by the congragation of York St. Methodist Church for Christmas. My family were featured in it. There is a small exhibition about in at Ossy Mills.