The family was living in West Derby, Liverpool and young Dorothy was sweet sixteen.
This picture was taken in Llangollen in North Wales, a lovely little market town on the edge of the river Dee.
The second World War had been over for almost a year and Dorothy was reunited with her mum and dad after being evacuated to North Wales. Around 130,000 people were evacuated from Merseyside during the war. Most came from around areas Germany was expected to target, like South Liverpool, the docks and oil storage sites, West Derby was in the expected blitz zone.
In 1939, at the age of nine, she was placed on a train at Liverpool Lime Street, along with a large group of her school friends, a name tag attached to her coat. It was true that a lot of children had a difficult time when away from their families during the war years, but Dorothy remembered those years, billeted with a family in a small village outside of Chester, as some of the most exciting and adventurous of her life, she was a self confessed tomboy and loved the country life and escapades with her new found friends.
John Edwards, who was called Jack had volunteered during the war as a part time firefighter, he was working during the day as a van driver, delivering furniture, evenings and sometimes late nights spent fighting blazes throughout the heavily bombed streets of south Liverpool.
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