Poet Ken Eaton-Dykes captures poignant memories of Manchester Blitz
Date published: 23 December 2016
This Christmas marks the 76th anniversary of the horrors of the Manchester Blitz when Nazi bombs rained down across the north-west and 85-year-old Middleton poet Ken Eaton-Dykes has vividly captured memories of those terrible days with some poignant prose.
Ken’s poem ‘Christmas Recollections’ movingly tells of Greater Manchester families running to the safety of air raid shelters rather than unwrapping presents and sharing gifts.
For that generation, Christmas 1940 will forever be associated with the terrifying sound of air raid sirens as German planes circled the skies. The poem is a stark reminder how the borough did not escape the horrors and bloodshed of World War II.
Ken’s work forms part of his collection of poetry entitled ‘I know where it’s @’.
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