Towards the end of our time at Wavertree Nook Road, I started a paper round from the corner paper shop. I did mornings only as I was not home in time from school to do the evening round, and only did Mondays to Saturdays. The pay was 4/6 (22.5p) per week for mornings and 4/- (20p) for evenings. I don't know how much the Sunday rounds were paid. It involved getting up early, collecting the papers at 7.00 am, putting them in the bag and delivering them along one side of Wavertree Nook Road, and along Thingwall Road. I was usually home again for breakfast by 8 O'clock. In those days, if you wanted extra pocket money, you were expected to go out and earn it ! I used to squander 6d a week on the new "Illustrated" magazine and also took the "Boy's Own Paper", which was full of exciting adventure stories. I especially remember the edition which had delta winged aircraft on the front cover, an artist's phantasy which would become reality nearly thirty years later. Jean's great friend in those days was Fay Clegg who lived close to the Wavertree Clock Tower in a big old Victorian house at Olive Mount Villas with two maiden aunts. It was a vast rambling house filled with the trappings of Victoriana, including a stuffed Albatross in a glass case on the first landing. Jean recalls sitting on the knee of Fay's Grandfather - a retired Sea Captain - and hearing tales of his exploits when captaining a sailing ship ! She also recalls not being allowed to play out on a Sunday and of the strong religious prejudice which then prevailed in Liverpool which meant that she was not allowed to play with Catholic children. The animosity between Catholic and Protestant which is at the heart of the continuing troubles in Northern Ireland today is of very long standing and the I.R.A. were as active in the 1930's as now. When the Protestant Orange Lodges marched through the city with their bands playing on the 12^th July each year to celebrate the Battle of the Boyne, and travelled by train to Southport for a day out, they were met by a Catholic mob on their return to Exchange station, and running fights ensued with bottles and glasses being used by both sides. I recall an explosion in the Post Office at Old Swan caused by an I.R.A. bomb. And the hostility of the Irish and their sympathy for and co-operation with Germany, was to cause grave anxiety to Britain during the Second World War.

We both remember seeing the German Zeppelin Airship which flew over Liverpool during a goodwill tour of Great Britain in 1938. There seemed to be no limit to the naivete of the pre-war pacifist Government, for it was of course busy taking aerial photographs of the docks and other strategic targets which the German planes would start bombing only two years later.