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Emergency Alert

Posted by Ronnie <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Ronnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/9/2025, 19:40:13
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Re: Emergency Alert

Posted by Bob Ball <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Bob+Ball' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 7/9/2025, 9:45:49, in reply to "Emergency Alert"

Must admit that I haven’t heard about this? so what kind of emergency is it about? Cheers

Re: Emergency Alert

Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/9/2025, 22:15:41, in reply to "Emergency Alert"

Thanks Ronnie I had forgotten, still remember the one during the war,didnt litherland use it with a fire service after the war,when we lived in warminster would see the male shop worker runing to the fire station,part timers,

Re: Emergency Alert

Posted by Ronnie <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Ronnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 9/9/2025, 8:58:14, in reply to "Re: Emergency Alert"
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Litherland's sirens were at the council yard in Field Lane and the Matchy until it was bombed - A siren was then placed on the roof of Walker's Mission, Linacre Road.

Re: Emergency Alert

Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 9/9/2025, 15:33:48, in reply to "Re: Emergency Alert"

Dad was away in North Africa ,Mum would take me into Rigbies when the alarm,or down to grans,1943 my brother was a new baby ,then she would sit me in his pram,didnt realize at the time it was a blackout,easyer for her both in the pram,i hated it

Re: Emergency Alert

Posted by Jean <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Jean' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 6/9/2025, 23:09:52, in reply to "Re: Emergency Alert"

When I waa at work, we had the national emergency warning system. All emergency services had one. It was on a highly protected telephone network. It was tested by the Home Office regularly. We had a form to fill in with a password that came over the line. It was always very crackly so, after the awful 'shrieking' alarm we all gathered round to listen! Woe betide us if we didn't get it!
All gone now! They think computers are the answer to everything!

Re: Emergency Alert

Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 7/9/2025, 8:02:28, in reply to "Re: Emergency Alert"

long ago about 1965 we where living in the country cottage,Mac was to be on duty and told me there would be lots of plane flying low through the night,Next morning at the bus stop met 2 elderly neighbor,who had been up all night realy worried thought WW 3 had started,

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