Liverpool Blitz: 2pm
Lime Street station is packed with confused children, clutching gas masks and waving goodbye as they board trains. Many
of their school friends have already been evacuated to the countryside, and the bombings of the last few nights have persuaded
their reluctant parents that they should go as well.
Learn more about evacuation.

Children board a train at Lime Street Station, September 1939 (larger version, opens new window) |