Originally Posted by
scouse exile
Hi people, it's me again. The guy who dared to write a stage play about the Cameo Cinema murders and got banished to turdtown by the MCCPS (Merseyside Cameo Case Protection Society ). Now then, in that connection, I've returned with a question. One of the central characters of the play is an escapologist ( don't ask ) and he's based on a performer I recall from my youth who used to do an escapology act on bomb sites in the years just after the war. I recall seeing him performing on the Blitz site at the junction of Lord Street and Whitechapel. He would climb into this old Post Office mailbag, an assistant ( lovely or not -- I can't remember ) would wrap him in chains. And he would proceed to try to escape his bonds with loud but muffled grunts of despair while writhing around scattering clouds of dust all over the city centre. Trouble is no one I've spoken to who was also around in those days seems to remember him. And I'm beginning to think I was hallucinating. So can anyone kindly confirm my recollection?
the maisonette that Hughie Smith lived & died is shown on this thread
http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4203
post numbers #3 & #7
Hughie lived on first floor 2nd maisonette along number 1a ,my dad lived on ground floor at number 3 & I lived a couple of doors away at number 9 & also opposite at number 2
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strangely the first maisonette of the block was 2 St Domingo Rd
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