Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I believe I still asked about my father but sadly this time I got no answers. He even had the power to make arrests of suspected saboteurs. Thanks for your grandfather’s service and thanks for the link up to my post! They live on a top floor developed after the fire station closed. “They were more than air raid wardens,” his daughter, Marva Carson Connelly, said. Sadly for my family and me those shiny black boots took my father away from us forever. I was greeted by my mother, “You’re back then.” She had that anxious look on her face that gave me feelings of unease, I had interrupted her reading of my fathers letter dated the same as my grannies letter, 18 April 1940. They are not policemen and do not have police powers, but usually function as part of the police force and with its help. soon. I was happy to live in that make believe world, where one could be dead yet get up and walk away. but now will be delayed. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not The air raid warden was responsible for checking that every house had adequate black out on all the windows, this was very important because it … How could my mother polish those boots with a vigour never used on the other shoes? On the corner of this building was the remains of an office, which, after cleaning up was used by the Wardens as a rest area between raids of bombs, landmines and …

I was easily distracted from my work as I listened to her sweet voice singing “I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, with vassals and serfs at my side.” Soon my brother John aged four years arrived to take me round the corner to my mother’s house. Carson had been deputized as what was known as an air raid warden in the Westpark neighborhood (now Bay Vista) during World War II. He ensured his cul-de-sac was pitch black in case of aerial attack. My father was able to take my brother up onto his shoulder and me on the other one, how proud and secure I felt in his strong arms. I wondered, after reading the booklet, if perhaps the note stuck in the pad was from one of the classes my grandfather took. Change ). One air raid warden who loved his job very much checked his blackouts keenly. An US WW2 Air Raid Warden "Civil Defense" Helmet. Earn up to 5x points when you use your eBay Mastercard. Their Ironsides Avenue residence was born in 1942 as a fire hall. The air raid warden was responsible for checking that every house had adequate black out on all the windows, this was very important because it hindered the German pilots in their missions to bomb Belfast, of course the Germans had aerial plans of Belfast, and knew were all the strategic buildings, railways and shipyard were, but the people of Belfast with their blackouts made sure that they would not make it any easier for the Germans to bomb them.

The pair decide to support the civil defense by becoming air raid wardens in Huxton. I do know that when he came home he hugged and kissed us all, of that there was no doubt. - eBay Money Back Guarantee - opens in new window or tab, This amount includes applicable customs duties, taxes, brokerage and other fees.

I was almost two years old when my father wrote this anxious letter to my granny. I never knew what she was thinking, or if she was still sorry that she ever left her home. It is accessible and plainly marked.

I was tired of doing the dusting, it was time for me to go home, my mother never asked me to do chores. Awards. Sometimes actually penetrating the lath and plaster wall and burning in the wall between the rooms. “Without hysteria or dramatics, grim-faced leaders of all phases of community life put aside their regular business today to give their full attention toward perfection of defense organizations and invited citizens to do their bit by enlisting in the nation’s cause,” a Dec. 8, 1941, article in the Bremerton Daily News Searchlight read.