A history of Colomendy - from evacuee camp to adventure centre
ARE you one of the thousands of Liverpool schoolchildren who visited Colomendy?
If so you'll probably enjoy this feature by the Daily Post's Bill Leece, looking back at the adventure centre's history and its use as a camp for evacuees.
He writes...
FOR generations of Liverpool schoolchildren, North Wales simply means Colomendy.
The estate, near Loggerheads, was bought in 1939 by the Government as part of a chain of residential camps for evacuees.
Nearly 600 children could be housed there in safety away from the expected Blitz, and the first occupants were pupils and teachers from Dingle Girls and Boys Secondary schools.
Edna McCumiskey was underwhelmed: "I didn't enjoy my time and was keen to get home.
"We could hear the bombers going overhead each night and watched Liverpool being bombed - the city just glowed every night.
"We all worried that our parents had been killed."
Read the rest of the feature here
There's also a lovely collection of people's memories on this website.
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Laura Davis - Laura Davis is the Liverpool Daily Post's Arts Editor and 02 Digital Journalist of the Year 2009, which is in a large part due to this blog. She has a long-standing interest in local history and is keen to learn more about your own memories or discoveries about the history of Liverpool and the surrounding area.
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