Edna Reid, a Resident at HC One’s Ringway Mews care home, has been telling tales of the past.
Edna, a Resident at the Manchester care home, enjoys spending time with another Resident, and felt compelled to tell her story of the Manchester Blitz!
Her father had taken her on Christmas Eve to visit her uncle in Failsworth when Edna was just 10 years old.
They heard the air raid siren sound and her father tried to get them back home to Wythenshaw. They got as far as Piccadilly when the bombs started to fall.
They managed to get to an underground shelter until the bombs stopped falling. The devastation was all around, and as they started to walk home a lorry driver kindly picked them up.
When they turned to walk down the top of the road, her mother was there and she was so worried.
It was amazing to hear Edna talk about this and her recollection of it all was so vivid.
Edna said “my mother and father took great care of us, my father was in the navy and my mother in the land army, I still have their picture.”
One of the Colleagues commented “listening to Edna's story just shows that even as we are experiencing the pandemic we did not have bombs to contend with!”