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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    As far as the Ordnance Survey maps are concerned the earliest I've seen after the war are from the late 1940s.
    They're in the LRO, and are detailed enough to show air-raid shelters.
    Ask for the 50-inch series.
    These will probably be at Sandhills, but you have to book 24 hours in advance.

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    Brilliant Mart

    What a find. I agree the Yates family are the friends she is talking about.

    This is superb. Do you think I could add this to the website?

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    its from a copyright video "Merseyside At War", I suppose you could and if they ask you to take it off, then delete it.
    I don't see any harm in it it promotes their Video / DVD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    These will probably be at Sandhills, but you have to book 24 hours in advance.

    Tel: 0151 233 5817
    Fax: 0151 233 5824
    Email: archives@liverpool.gov.uk
    Cheers for that.

    The LRO has looked and found nothing. They say I can come in and look at any map. I have an email for contact with then now.

    As they say for security its doubtful that Shelters were put on maps.

    I was talking to an old lady yesterday who says it was where the Green was. She says the path on the GREEn goes into a triangle and that is on or very near to where the shelter stood. It was the old continuation of THomas Drive it was on,with Edge Lane drive behind it.

    I believe the Shelter Jimmy has mentioned would have been for workers at the factory.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hmtmaj View Post
    This is a clip from "Merseyside at War", Kitty Ellis, describes where the shelter was, opposite Broadgreen Hospital, which would ore than likelybe, The Green and mentions her friends, probably the list of names below, from Tony's site

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    ANNIE YATES
    died 03/05/1941, aged 32.
    of 7 Statton Road, Edge Lane Drive, Broad Green. Daughter of Timothy Edward and Sarah Jane Lucas; wife of James Henry Yates. Died at Rocket Shelter, Broad Green.

    MABEL YATES
    died 03/05/1941, aged 18 Months.
    Aged 18 months; of 7 Statton Road, Edge Lane Drive, Broad Green. Daughter of James Henry and Annie Yates. Died at Rocket Shelter, Broad Green.

    MARGERY YATES
    died 03/05/1941, aged 8.
    of 7 Statton Road, Edge Lane Drive, Broad Green. Daughter of James Henry and Annie Yates. Died at Rocket Shelter. Broad Green.

    JAMES HENRY YATES
    died 06/05/1941, aged 32.
    Firewatcher; of 7 Statton Road, Edge Lane Drive, Broad Green. Husband of Annie Yates. Injured 3 May 1941, at Rocket Shelter, Broad Green; died at Broad Green Emergency Hospital.

    JAMES HENRY YATES
    died 14/11/1941, aged 11.
    of 7 Stratton Road, Broad Green, Liverpool. Son of James Henry and Annie Yates. Injured 3 May 1941, at Rocket Shelter, Broad Green; died at Royal Infirmary.

    http://liverpoolremembrance.weebly.c...t-shelter.html

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    The Green. Built and laid out in the 1950s after the air raid shelter was removed. This is the point where the paths merge.



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    There has been mentions of a triangle, where the Shelter was.
    IF, you go left from where the pic above is, on Google maps, there is still triangle of "green", maybe it was there ?

    Anyway, Spike I have emailed you with the contact details of the gentleman who wrote the letter in the Echo, last year.
    He will gladly speak with you, concerning this and anything else you would like to know.
    He was about 10 at the time but remembers it well, he remembers how guilty his father was about directing a neighbour to this Shelter, just before the direct hit.

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    Brilliant Mart. This is great news. Norman is my new best friend

    Great detective work Mart
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    Has this page on your site been updated ?
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    Where are all the posts?
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    You're the mail man?
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    This is so interesting , i have been showing this to my little girl . It's also very sad seeing the names of some of the dead too .
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    No Ged.

    Loads of replies have gone off this thread. The map has gone?
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    Yes, just looked back. Where has it gone?
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