![]() ![]() The baby of the Sissons family became more famous in later life. We tend to see the Second World War as a mans war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. “They started outside the home of the Sissons family who had three lads - the middle one gave me the nickname ‘Yosser’ which still sticks to this day with some of my older friends. In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the womens Second World War, through a host of individual womens experiences. This book tracks women’s experiences of a momentous decade through a host of individual stories, drawing on autobiographies, archives and living memory. And he remembers the party tables in the street too. Millions Like Uscovers the war and its aftermath, 1939-1949 and was Viking’s lead non-fiction title in Spring 2011. While the women pooled their resources - ingredients and cake tins - their husbands laid out trestle tables down the centre of the streets and tied up bunting to the lampposts and window frames.ĭave Hughes from Maghull remembers the flags and bunting tied to his bedroom in Ingleton Road, around the corner from Penny Lane. ![]() Neighbours spent days cooking pies and pastries, all made with dried eggs, sandwiches were filled and cut by the hundred and saved-up tins of fruit finally opened. Like most communities up and down Britain, we marked the momentous occasion by getting out the bunting and heading into kitchens to start baking. Rationing might still have been on for lots of basic foods, but that didn’t stop overjoyed friends and family laying on a spread in virtually every street in Liverpool to celebrate VE Day. ![]()
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