Betty Culshaw (nee Moore) was born in 1928 at Northwich in Cheshire and raised at 40 The Avenue, Winnington, Northwich. Educated at Winnington Council School until age 9, and Saint Wilfred's R.C. until 14, she recalls some particularly poignant wartime experiences.

It was a Sunday in September 1939 when I was coming home from church on a glorious sunny day, expecting to hear that war would be declared and thinking 'my Dad will have to go'.

After Dunkirk, troops camped 'under canvas' on the farm field opposite to where we lived; more were billeted in the I.C.I. estate sheds and even more in makeshift huts nearby.

I remember coming home with a can of milk from the farm and seeing a plane flying just above the power lines, and then seeing the German Cross under the wings.

I could see the faces of the two men in the cockpit. Although we had been told to throw ourselves under a hedge if planes came over low, all I could think of was the milk and how much trouble I would be in if I spilt it, it was rationed.

Betty has also lived at the following addresses: 29 Dane Rd, Sale, Cheshire; 12 Shirley Avenue, Stretford, M/C; 4 Stamford Road,

Carrington, Cheshire; 202 Liverpool Road, Irlam, M/C. and 8 Brook Grove, Irlam, M/C.

During her working life she has worked at: Woolworth's,Witton Street, Northwich; N.A.A.F.I.; and Thomas Hedley, Trafford Park, M/C. (Procter&Gamble.)

Friends from the past whose names readily come to mind include: Amy Butcher, Olive Mason, Derek Millington, Tony Mcgowan, Jimmy Stevens, and an American called Jimmy Lanzrath.

Betty Culshaw, 2002