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<strong>All</strong> <strong>About</strong><br />
YOUR HISTORY<br />
Elizabeth moved from rural<br />
Shropshire to the hustle<br />
and bustle of the big city of<br />
Liverpool and met Patrick<br />
Elizabeth and her<br />
daughter Mary<br />
Josephine in Ireland<br />
A snap taken of Patrick<br />
and Elizabeth taken in the<br />
1960s outside their house<br />
in Wavertree, Liverpool<br />
she would take the children and go back to live<br />
in Shropshire where she had come from. She felt<br />
there was nothing left for her in Liverpool. A few<br />
days before she was due to leave, her brotherin-law<br />
asked her to go to the cinema with him.<br />
As well as a film, the cinemas used to show<br />
newsreels to explain to the public how the war was<br />
progressing. The newsreel started and pictures of<br />
German prisoners of war came on the screen. After<br />
watching for a while my nan suddenly screamed<br />
out loud, “That’s my husband!”<br />
One of the prisoners on the screen was my<br />
granddad. My nan fainted with the shock of<br />
seeing him. The relief she felt at knowing that her<br />
husband was still alive was the best news she could<br />
ever have received. The cinema manager learned<br />
about what had happened and he presented my<br />
nan with a small box. In it was the piece of the<br />
film with her husband on it. It became one of her<br />
treasures. My nan obviously cancelled her plans<br />
to go to Shropshire. When the war ended, my<br />
granddad returned home to be reunited with his<br />
wife and children. He also met his three-year-old<br />
son for the first time. My grandparents remained<br />
living in Everton until after World War II. They<br />
enjoyed a happy life and were married more than<br />
50 years before my granddad passed away. They<br />
had 11 children in total and became grandparents to<br />
dozens of grandchildren in the years to come.<br />
That visit to the cinema stopped a family from<br />
potentially being split up forever. If my nan had no<br />
seen her husband on the cinema screen, she would<br />
have moved to Shropshire and her husband may<br />
never have seen her or his children again.<br />
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A photo of Elizabeth shortly<br />
after she married Patrick<br />
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