This makes me so proud to be a Scouser...people that would never surrender!....I was born 4yrs after the War ended...I’m so very proud of our Great City!....
My father lived in Beaufort st Dingle Liverpool 8 , spitting distance from the docks he was 8 yrs old but remembered every detail , His uncle was a fireman based on dock road until it was flattened then went to Dovecot, Dad and his 5 siblings were bombed out of two homes in 2 weeks my grandad was in merchant navy in Atlantic convoys and later in Murmansk in Russia until the war ended, Dad would tell me his war stories untill he died in 2018 at 85 he cried 2 days before he died about the loss of his uncle Joe lost on HMS Orpheus submarine in 1940 RIP DAD AND ALL OUR FAMILY LOST IN WW2 💖💖💖💖💖
Whenever a documentary is broadcast about WWII and the Luftwaffe's bombing of Britain, Liverpool is NEVER mentioned. Yet it was second to London in receiving the most bombing throughout the war.
My mam used to talk about it regularly, she worked in an ammunition factory off Renshaw St which used to be Rolls Royce before the war I was born in 1946 and I remember on weekends going to the Pier Head and we used to go down William Brown St and look through the doors of the museum and wonder if it would ever open again. And people criticise Brittain for the destruction of Dresden, I have had discussions with German friends who don't know how to respond when I tell them about the May Blitze
my mum was a girl of 12 when the bombs started to drop in Birkenhead..all her life she suffered with her nerves...i cant even begin to imagine how terrifying it was.
I was eleven. In Liverpool went all through it. Went through the same stuff as you did. Lost an ear drum to a Landmine. ( also lost My Dad in the Atlantic etc. ). All very exciting to a kid. Now I'm old and putting it all together. I now live in Los Angeles. TV are getting interested in a series. Here's hoping! If not I'm taking it back to the BBC ! Instead of "Downton Abbey", Maybe they'll be interested in "Dancing in Liverpool" etc.
Before he joined the army proper my dad was in the Home Guard guarding the Brittania Railway Bridge at Runcorn. The German bombers flew over on their way to Liverpool and they were sure they were going to try to hit the bridge. They never did try, but they could see and hear Liverpool being plastered. My mum was in Liverpool but was evacuated to Cheshire. A few years later dad went to Normandy on D-Day.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw Was he another of Stalin's "useful idiots"? I do hope you told him that to his face.... He'd have knocked the fuck out of you if he had anything about him.
My parents where in them blizzs there generation where strong n tufff they where Bootle the Germans were goin for the docks I'm proud to born from my beautiful parents 🙏🙏
My Mum lived in Rock Ferry and was 7yrs old when the war started and her and her younger sister were evacuated to Wales. Sadly they were mistreated there and their elder sister came and took them back home. My Mum used to often talk about the air raids and how scared she was. Even into her old age she would be uneasy if she heard the town siren sounding. She lived close to Cammell Lairds so I guess that was the target.
If anyone has heard of the Well Lane bombing of 1941, I can tell you that Dr. George Seymour Swan, who took part in the rescue effort of Annie Done and Florence Bithell came to Australia with his wife Margaret in 1964. An orthopedic surgeon, he set up (his words) "Artificial Limbs Units" in Sydney Hospitals. I first came into contact with him in 1987, when he told me about his part in the rescue. Amongst other things, he told me that Winston Churchill came to Tranmere, Birkenhead, after the rescue, and wanted to see the girls. His reply to him was "I'm sorry sir, you can't see them". He said he got an autograph from Churchill. Dr. Swan was born on St. George's day 1896, and died at Sydney, Australia in 1988 aged 92.
Thanks for sharing that bit of history amazing story .Have you ever thought of doing a audio on RU-vid it's a story that I believe would be greatly received. Thanks very much .
@@tamawihongi8658 Here is a link to a page in The Australian Womens Weekly in 1969 showing Dr. Swan and his wife Margaret with a photo taken on their 50th Anniversary. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/43201963?browse=ndp%3Abrowse%2Ftitle%2FA%2Ftitle%2F112%2F1969%2F02%2F05%2Fpage%2F4904839%2Farticle%2F43201963
I was there, throughout the War. I'm currently working on a screenplay/ TV miniseries, covering a true 1941 War Love Story, between my friend's, older, hot, sister, (who worked as a machinist in a factory), and an Air Pilot from Southport, who had a green PB MG, and regularly Pioleted his Blenheim Bomber in raids, over Germany, etc.,.... until he got shot down, over in France and then....attempted to get back to England. etc.
The bombs it Creswick st off Breck Road killed 23 people..all in the middle houses .. My dad was walking home from. Thomas white gardens when our street was hit.
Me grandad was a kid in d blitz in liverpool an d only reson he wasent sent away was he broke his arm looying the bombed houses and the when he got back from the hosptial me great nan got told me great grandad ad bin captured by d germans he was dachuow he came home in 1945
Hitlers brother lived in Liverpool for awhile with his Irish wife before the war which is fact. Rumours of Hitler came to visit once an that he he went to watch Everton play because we wear the same colours of Schalke in Germany, local urban legend but a cool story still.
Hitler stayed in Upper Stanhope Street, Liverpool 8. i know how to find film of him as a young man in Liverpool but have never revealed it to anyone. i may be sitting on a fortune. He did watch Everton apparently and also visited the poste house pub in cumberland street which strangely has a German postman on it;s pub sign hanging outside.
There were no radar equipped night fighters to intercept the bombers, so defending against large formations was very difficult if not impossible at that stage in the war. Once we got radar equipped Beaufighters and later Mosquitos the odds changed, but that was two years later.
Bootle still has damage from the war. The docks bombed infrastructure is still there for all to be seen . Rail ways abandoned and filled in and what’s left is used to store millions of tons of scrap metal. Thatcher and Hitler both did a job destroying the city. Hitler had reasons I would like to know what reasons Thatcher had.
Nice story mate. Say, do you have a photo of those 12 people killed in your neighborhood? In fact, do you Brits have ONE PHOTO of a dead body anywhere during your supposed “blitz”?
We didn't photograph the dead Bodies of the men ,women and children that died each night. We just wheelbarrowed them up and got them buried, before the next upcoming Air raid warning ,....sounded.
Are you a dead body fetishist? Look hard enough and you'll find footage of the 550 caskets being placed into the mass grave in Anfield cemetery. Obviously the caskets are closed, or were you hoping to see the damaged, decomposed, and dismembered bodies?
Philipcrank....even if anyone had a camera...why would they take photos of dead mutilated bodies?......the Blitz is fact ...look up the history....you knobhead!...
Usual unsupported garbage from you James. luckily I have the follwing ready to "copy and paste". First German bombs dropped on the British mainland? 16th October 1939 saw the very first bombs dropped on Britain when the Germans launched scattered air attacks over port and industrial facilities around the Scottish city of Edinburgh, and the RN naval base at Rosyth. First bombs dropped by the RAF on German soil? 19th March 1940... When on 13th November 1939 the luftwaffe bombed RAF Sullom Voe a seaplane base with port facilities in the Shetland Isles (with the resultant death of a rabbit, and no hits on the 9 seaplanes or 2 RN vessels stationed there), the RAF retaliated by hitting the nazi seaplane base at Hörnum on the island of Sylt in the North Sea. These were THE VERY FIRST RAF bombs to land on German soil....5 months AFTER the first German bombs had landed on British soil. The first British or German civilian casualty caused by the bombing of the opposing side during WW2? 16th March 1940 when German bombs hit the village of Waithe on Orkney during an attack on the Home Fleet anchorage at Scapa Flow, which killed a 27 year-old County Council employee, James Isbister (luckily, his wife, baby son, and the neighbour James was endeavouring to rescue from her bombed cottage all survived). First British bombs to drop on the actual German mainland? 11th May 1940, when the British air ministry for the first time allowed the bombing of railway yards, communication centres and bridges west of the Rhine River as interdiction of German supply lines for the German assault into the NEUTRAL Low countries and France on 10th May 1940. Previous to this date the British air ministry in an effort to stop the spreading of the conflict had refused to allow the RAF to drop ANY bombs on the German mainland, instead the RAF supplied the German demand for toilet paper by dropping propaganda leaflets on German cities. This attack on 11th May 1940 had also come after REPEATED attacks against RN installations on the British mainland, most notably at Rosyth near Edinburgh, and the Cromarty Firth, both in Scotland throughout the winter of 1939/40. First British bombs dropped EAST of the Rhine River? 23/24th August 1940. This attack ostensibly directed at the Klingenberg Power Station in Eastern Berlin & Templehof airport was in RETALIATION for REPEATED luftwaffe raids on RAF stations within the suburbs of Greater London throughout July and August 1940 that had already caused HUNDREDS of innocent British civilian deaths & casualties (euphemistically known nowadays as "collateral damage") this was inspite of Hitler's previous decrees that no bombs should be dropped within the boundaries of Greater London. Obviously that decree had never reached the ears of Herman Goering. German retaliation for the one night of bombing of Berlin on 23/24th August 1940? The launching of the all out assault against British cities from 7th sept 1940 onwards, culminating in the world's first attempt to create a firestorm during operation "moonlight sonata" on the British city of Coventry on the night of 14/15th Nov 1940, where the luftwaffe sent 575 bombers using their world beating "X-gerat" bombing system (in the Germans own words capable of placing "target indicator" flares with an accuracy of 50 meters at 200 miles range) over the civilian city centre of Coventry dropping 550 tons of high explosive (including hundreds of "flammen" (oil) bombs) followed by over 30,000 incendiary bombs. The final death toll of that single raid? A previously unheard of 568 innocent civilians, this was in addition to the thousands of other British civilians already killed in other cities across Britain over the previous 2 months. The first British bombing raid directly targetted at German civilians? "Operation Abigail" on the night of 16/17th December 1940, (3 months AFTER the opening of the nazi "blitz" on British cities) the Dec 16th attack by the RAF was launched against the German city of Mannheim where 100 RAF bombers dropped 100 tons of HE and 14,000 incendiaries inflicting a death toll on the German population of 34 dead and 81 injured. Not to worry though , the RAF eventually "upped its game" and showed the Germans how to do it properly a year or two later. Don't try to hide the fact that the Germans enjoyed dropping HE on the cities of its neighbours from the earliest days of flight. The first aerial bombs dropped in history were from a zeppelin raid on Bruges in Belgium in August 1914... just 11 years after the invention of powered flight. Since WW2, they've learned the lesson NOT to do it again.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw I'm assuming you know how to "copy and paste", then please provide me with a quote from one of his books that details where he states this. I know you won't because he at no point does so. Just typing in a name you've googled and citing it as "evidence" to support your nonsense, doesn't wash with anyone.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Spaight confirmed the RAF began bombing German cities on 11 May 1940, four months before the Blitz began in direct response. AJP Taylor also confirmed this in 1961.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw No he didn't, absolute nonsense. Explain the death of James Isbister killed by German bombs on 16th March 1940? The FIRST British OR German civilian killed by the bombs of the other side.
