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    I think we need to see some maps of the area from 1940 - 45 really.
    This would tell us exactly where it is.

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    Are there any pillars in the Wheatsheaf? I only thought there were planks!

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    Dont say German on this thread

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    He doesn't frequent the Wheaty, I do have lots of friends you know
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    I want to know about the Cholera pit please , as well as the shelter .
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    Quote Originally Posted by hmtmaj View Post
    I think we need to see some maps of the area from 1940 - 45 really.
    This would tell us exactly where it is.

    My Source, "JMLE", is a well respected pillar of the community, not a Ged Fagan type you know.

    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.

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    Are the maps available with the LRO being shut?

    Trouble is that as this was an underground shelter its most likely it was closed over after the bombing. They tended to spread lime over the rubble and seal them up if people died there in case any bodies had been missed.
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    Surely somewhere in the LRO or Council would have maps of all Air Raid shelters !

    I'll ask Harry ( he's not my source by the way ! )

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    City Council have passed my email onto someone who they say may be able to help.
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    Reply from LRO

    I am afraid that I have been unable to trace a map showing the exact position of this shelter, presumably due to security during the war years. You might be able to locate the position on a post war map

    Makes sense that it was not put on a map.

    talking to an old lady yesterday who says there was a Shelter where THE GREEN is.
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    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

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvDlgyVJN7k

    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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