Re: What was accrington like during the war?
I was in Blackpool during the war having been bombed out of London and Manchester and didn’t arrive in Accrington until 1945 when I was just 8 years old.
My thanks must go to Roy for the link to the excellent thread by jamesicus. It brought back so many vivid memories.
My thanks must also go to Thames Television for producing that brilliant series “The World At War”. I bought the series on DVD from Amazon a few weeks back and have been ploughing through each episode. Schools could do with showing the whole series to their pupils as part of the recent history curriculum. It would give the youth of today an insight what their grandparents went through so that they could be educated in English and have the freedom to behave as they do.
Incidentally steve the ROF in Blackburn was nicknamed “The Fuse” so no they did not make the bombs. The casing and fuses yes but no explosives. Unless it was a well kept war secret.
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