Great video Kev. Nice to see you cover the Crosby end. That rubble area extends under the nearby golf coarse. As erosion takes place, it's exposing more and more. Golfers ain't going to be happy. Some of the finest city centre buildings are under there. Including parts of the old, stunning Customs house, which became Chavase park after demolition. Now part of the Liverpool One area. If you're going to continue covering our importance during WW2, what a great project to move onto. Never mind our History as a city.
Wow Kev what a truly fantastic video, you have an amazing talent. We need more people like you, passionate people who want to tell a story, tell the kids not to forget, this happened, it happened here to their relatives. I am not from Liverpool, I am from Kilmarnock in Scotland, but I have always had Liverpool in my heart. I love the city and I love the people and you epitomise that belief in the City and its people. I have been a Liverpool fan, from the mid 60's when as a boy I read about Bill Shankly and found out he was appointed on the 1st December 1959 and the next day he started to make LFC the powerhouse we were to become. I was born on the 2nd December 1959, the day he first took on his new team and started the revolution. From that day my heart, like Shanks was with Liverpool. Like Shanks I am an Ayrshire man, Glenbuck is not too far from Kilmarnock. I never thought I would get there as a lad and when I got my first job I was sent to the Merchant Navy College at Riversdale out in Aigburth. This is where I then lived from 77 to 81, sailing on ships out of the docks next to where Bramley Road Stadium is being built. I even learned to drive in the city and passed my driving test in Bootle. My heart is with Liverpool and I get down as much as I can, again I just love its people. There is no place like it anywhere in the world and I should know I have been to most. Kev please keep up this amazing change in your career, sharing your videos of Anfield, but please more of these Documentary videos, you have a fantastic talent as this video shows Y.N.W.A.
I remember being told about when an ammunition ship blew up in huskisson dock and supposedly bits of the ship were blown huge distances. One of the saddest stories I remember was about an aerial mine hitting a maternity hospital in Anfield, the details were so tragic. I’ve really enjoyed your channel mate and I always recommend you to all my mates down in sunny Devon .Many thanks.
Quality video and insight mate. Never knew about the rubble and history of it. Would love to see more content on Liverpool itself and the history behind things. Top stuff.
Firstly, nice legs Kev! The overhead shots gave a good sense of the expanse of the fill area. I enjoy most history and especially war history. I think it's important to share this with the younger generations, when people made of sterner stuff went through hardships that we couldn't imagine today.
Nice one Kev. I can see some mileage in these local history videos mate, so keep it going. You've come a long way in a very short period of time. I remember your first video/s on the Annie Road expansion, where you said yourself how self conscious you were. Improving all the time.
As always, great vid Kev, loved this one. BBC have covered this spot a couple of times and you can even see the stone window frames from the grand Customs House that suffered during the blitz and was eventually demolished. Also in the rubble you can see tiles with writing on from the shops and boozers that were flattened. It’s a great spot for a walk oozing history.
Really nice video kev i have heard crosby is nice in general need to come and visit more frequently but some wonderful history shared there to all it's good to educate the masses so much happened as you were explaining to the subscribers wonderful work just wonderful.
Great video Kev, I came here as an LFC fan from your Annie Rd videos. I am also a history buff so would love to see more content like this. I am from Bristol and we share a real bond and kinship with Liverpool... Both working class cities with strong links to the workers struggle and unions, both bombed heavily in WWII, both port/dock cities - Keep up the good work mate, I appreciate you!
Brilliant, thank you so much. I will be doing a lot more like this. Just takes longer writing up scripts, but it’s worth it. Thank you for the kind comments
Kev, I'm down that way a lot on my bike...and if those stones and bricks could talk, the things they could tell us would blow are minds.....Quality mate 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Great video . i was drawn here after your work on the Anfield improvement. Keep up the good work! i am watching this as I look out my window at the beaches of the Pacific although I am a native of Liverpool
I rarely comment on videos, but I have to say I did not expect that from you Kev. It was excellent, informative, fantastically paced and very interesting. I think you have a future in these types of videos as well as your stadium content. Thank you very much kev.
Kevlar this is great me lad. Beautifully created. You tell a good tale. The drone footage at the end gives a great idea on the scale of the carnage that unfolded. Tip top job. 😊
HI Kevin Great video lots of history to how it was in those time as some of us do not know about what happened in those time so really looking forward to your future ones.Again thank you
Great video Kev. My Mum lived in Kirkdale and a lot of kids like her were evacuated to Skelmersdale, to my regret I never queried her about it, will have to pay blitz beach a visit, usually just go to the Gormley statues for a walk. Thanks ❤
That was a great watch Kev. I found it quite poignant and you delivered it perfectly and with the right gravitas, given the facts you were putting across to us. Local History has always fascinated me so any more like this and you can count me in.
Emotional and powerful people video, Kev. Are there any more sites like this on Merseyside? More please. Your script writing is good. Keep it up please.
My house was bombed in ww2, now it's a new build but I've been doing digging in my garden coz I'm redesigning it and I've been finding all the debris from the old house. I've found bricks ,old reinforced glass that's been melted by an incendiary bomb and even cutlery buried 2ft under my garden.
Being that Liverpool is my favorite club, I also enjoy learning and reading about the events of WWII & this is a good series to get into seeing that it contains both the city of Liverpool & history of WWII. Thanks for the info!
good video kev,your volume is alway at the right place,never too loud but good enough to hear you,wear to visit next?dont know the places you would know ,im sure you could find some more places to visit.well done on all fronts mate!
I'm in Liverpool this weekend. Just been on a ferry across the Mersey. Amazing skyline of Liverpool water front. Could also see Anfield main stand in the distance plus Everton's new stadium build. Proud to be a Scouser. Going to the Cavern club tonight.
@Kevcupo it was only £2.50 per person. Got an all day ticket for £7.50. Went at lunchtime and it was coolio. Not too busy. Went back in the evening and it was heaving and far too noisy. Getting old I guess. Entrance fee pays for the live music. Ps. The view of the Annfield main stand from the ferry boat was awesome. YNWA 😆🧙♂️😆
Hi KC it's always nice to see vids on the history of your city. I don't have certain proof but i'm sure that ww2 is the reason my grandfather moved from Liverpool to London he was a stoker in the navy during the war, i'd love it for more like this thanks a lot for this one and hope for more.
Well crafted video Kev, spent the first 25 years of my life Bootle, Crosby and Litherland but didn’t know that beach existed or it’s historic significance thanks the research. These sort of historic stories are important to pass this information to future generations.
Hi kev great video my dad was from Liverpool he was born in 1929, he was in the may blitz just after that he got evacuated to Shrewsbury, he said when the bombing finished in the morning they would come out and look for shrapnel, the tenement block he lived-in got blown up luckily they went to the air-raid shelter, they didn't go there all the time he said they would hide under the table
Great homer Street just off Scotland Road he moved from Liverpool in the 1950s he had a sister who lived 5 minutes from goodison Park, they never saw each other for over 50 years but they managed to meet up before she died ,she was a really lovely woman and a proper scouser.
Brilliant video Kev, Liverpool history is amazing. Steam train competition with the famous Rocket, overhead railway, leeds to Liverpool canal, old dock of Liverpool, disused railway tunnels underneath the city, strawberry fields, penny lane & Williamson tunnels are just a few. I'll certainly be following your other adventures 👍
A very interesting & moving video Kev.I was wondering why do ya think Liverpool was targeted like this? I live in Derby,East Midlands & from what I can gather, cos I wasn't born till 1951,that Derby was bombed becos of the Rolls-Royce connection.Yes, I feel the spirit of the Liverpool people.When I see the Kop singing our anthem...I always have tears in my eyes cos I get the spirit of sooo much adversity & hardship, even today that has been passed along the generations.I have felt this infinity with the people of Liverpool since 1963 when I first became a fan of my beloved LFC.I don't know,,,,maybe I was a Scouser in a previous life?!😊Anyway,thanks so much for this video...lovely to find out a bit of history.Thanks Kev & bless yas.👏👏👏💜YNWA.x
Thank you so much, Liverpool was targeted because of the docks, hence why North Liverpool and Bootle took such a beating. Your affinity to Liverpool, makes you an adopted scouser
born and bred crosby and never once heard it called that either, i have heard it many times called the erosion because of the houses that fell into the sea with the erosion of the coastline, maybe it is hightown beach called that, great video and other info though, cant wait to see more
hi kev great video i was born in bootle and lived there for 30yrs on southport road by the kidney island i always went to crosby had many happy times there i remember the the strand in the old days maybe a video on that will be good see how much its changed and the old container base in orrel park were there used to be a giro bank lol cheers kev
Hi Kev, what a wonderful video, my Granparents & ma Da's family were from Liverpool, later moved to Chester, remember as a young lad ma Gramps taking me along there when I was 7,. He served during & after the war, he was a King/Queens Harbour Master, who moved up to Scotland way in early 50s. History is beneath our feet, all around us, & above us. When he spoke about the blitz, you could see in his face how terrible it was. Even when up here he gave me history's lessons about the area I lived. I guess it was both sets of Grandparents & Da, a love of history If I've prattle on soz, again what a wonderful, informative video. Hope there's more to come. My Da used too tell me Scouse by birthright, Scots by choice. YOU NEED TAE NO YER HISTORY LADDIE 😂😂
Loved reading that mate, memories you have and stories passed on through generations are what keeps history alive. I will be doing so much more of this
Great video always good to find out history of certain places. Winston Churchill really did have a brass neck complementing the people of Liverpool on one hand whilst a few years earlier sending gunships up the Mersey
An interesting aspect of the area's past - one thing to clear out the devastated buildings and rebuild, but what to do with the spoil. At least the rubble has been put to a good use. How effective has it been in holding the coastline? Where we live, in the Welsh borders, it's mostly about Offa's Dyke, the Norman castles, and priories and abbeys later brought down by Henry VIII. Travel ten miles west and you have reached the edge of the geology that gave rise to mining, mostly in iron and coal - the spoil from that reshaped many hill tops and moorlands. Not even grass and trees can conceal such casual dumping in many places.
Hi Kev Really enjoyed that mate..Can you do a video of Hillsborough to maybe educate some of the generations who don’t know the true story from Liverpool as a city not just LFC
Hi Kev great and interesting video wasn't part of this beach used to film the bouncing bomb segment in the Dam busters film as the dunes and road look the same seen in the film?
Nice video, Kev. I was down there myself just yesterday, as I am a few times every week. I knew of the history of the erosion, as it's often referred to. I know a lot of people don't though, and wonder where the rubble came from and why it's there. It's a great area down there. At low tide what's left of the wreck of the Pegu can be seen at the edge of the Crosby Channel. It had a clearly visible mast sticking up until, I think, the 1980s when a tug lost power and drifted into it, breaking it off. Between Hall Road car park and the pumping station near where you were sat there are lots of really good pieces of carved stonework from city centre buildings. Interestingly, between the pumping station and Hightown there are pill boxes from wartime. Fort Crosby if memory serves. They have been buried by the council to stop kids getting inside, but you can still stand on the flat concrete roofs of them. People have dug access to a couple of them too. There is one that our last dog would not go near. He'd go near all but one of them. One terrified him for some reason. Some of those bricks also came from old mansions that fell into the sea at Blundellsands, long before the sea wall and promenade was built. Anyway, it was nice seeing you in front of camera. I watch your Anfield videos as much for you as for your content. I like your approach. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much David, you have some fantastic memories and information. I was going to cover for Crosby today, but I’m going to leave it for another video. One of the bunkers are just about accessible
Lived about ten minutes walk away and at Seaforth / Waterloo and used to play in those pillboxes as a kid in the early fifties and pretend we were firing out of them, had to be a bit careful because sometimes they were used a a toilet. The raw sewage pipes used to empty straight onto the shore; always told to leave the hundreds of ‘balloons’ alone.
Wow great video KC, great to know this stuff. Is the bricks there anything to do with the golf club or just by accident the council dumped em there & golf club opened up. It’s like here in Ireland we had “EIRE” made up of stones with a number under it. Was forgotten about by nature, wasn’t until a gorse fire revealed a couple that people up earthed them again, it was to let German plans now they were over Ireland & not Great Britain & same for the allies that Great Britain wasn’t too far away. Was Goodison or Anfield bombed in that 2 year span?
I was just thinkng, a study of some of the less famous buildings around Everton's new ground would make for an interesting video? For example, what is the tale of those two barrel vaulted buildings either side of Blackstock St?
@@Kevcupo have a question for you up by Allerton cemetery just by the pub in the park their is an old building by their don't know if you have seen it but it looks like an old army look out post
Great video Kev. Thanks for your piece of history on the city I love. Your dead right about the people, we don't bow down to anyone. Look forward to your future videos.
well said Kev,,it's a bit weather worn from when i remember it,,that was back in mid 50's,,,, did ya find a bomb,,could i have 1st dips on it ,, god i really wanted to find one
very interesting video I love hearing about the war we have a lot of history in Plymouth keep the good work going don't forget my shout out please on next liverpool video
