this one ?
Yeah, who deleted it, have you nicked it from somewhere and they've complained?
More stuff has gone as well.
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Ok this thread has lost some of its post? You cant trust these ruddy mods on here
To get back on track.
Me and Mart have been doing a bit of digging ( not under the flyover )
Mart got in touch with a guy called Norman who was 10 during the bombing. He has given us some memories of back then and placed the shelter on a Triangle bit of ground thay stood where the Flyover is now. The enterance was on Queens Drive.
I talked to a lady called Betty who was 6 back then. She recalls the shelter was to the left of the Gardeners Arms pub where the green is.
-A newspaper letter mentions the shelter was on Triangle ground between Edge Lane Drive and Queens Drive.
A story by Hilda on the site says." There were many tragic bombings very close to us. Many young people died in a large underground public shelter on Queen's Drive near Broadgreen Road "
And the Lady who worked at Broadgreen Hospital who mentions it was outside there on Queens drive.
Ok we are happy with the location. 3 triangles of land appear on maps at that area. One was for the old bridge over Edge land Drive and its not on the 1942 map so its not that one, plus that was built for the bridge. 2 left. One is behind the Gardeners pub, though not bordered by Queens drive or Edge Lane drive.
So only one left. The 1942 Map shows it running along Queens drive and Edge Lane drive. We have our location. Part of the triangle is still there now used for the Traffic lights by the flyover. The photo below is looking towards its. The flats of the Green are to the left of this photo ( not seen )
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Then Mart got a mate to impose a new map over the 1942 map so we can see what has happened to the triangle. Part is under the flyover, but bits are left at the traffic lights and on the corner of the Green flats on Queens Drive, where they have left a bit of land with a big tree on it ( to the far left on photo above ) why did they leave this?
http://liverpoolremembrance.weebly.c...t-shelter.html
You can see the Maps on here. The page is under construction so bear with it. Lots more to add yet.
Anyway we are happy that this is the location, it all fits.
I will get along for some pics soon.
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Great stuff Tony and Mart.
http://liverpoolremembrance.weebly.c...t-shelter.html
A few pics and some more info added.
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Thanks Spike such an interesting post.
Do you have any information on Ash Grove, Wavertree which took a direct bomb?
I have put the deaths on the website http://liverpoolremembrance.weebly.c...ings-1940.htmlOriginally Posted by Diane Louise
Scroll down to 29th November. It was called Ashfield. It was hit in the same raid that hit Durning Road. I have some newspaper details for it but have not added them yet.
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Thanks Spike, the Knowles family are related on my dad's side of the family. I saw them on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site.
Very nice to see them on your site, keep up your sterling work!
Another lady contacted me who is related to them.
Did you ever see the story about them in the Echo? I have it, with pics of some of them.
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No I didn't but I would like to!
Mart has scanned the newspaper.
Ive emailed it to you.
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Does anyone know of the shelter under / within Botanic Gardens by Botanic Road Wavertree
The one attached to the Littlewoods Building ?
Its partially under the park ?
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0...name_page.html
Mart
Wo - on there like a shot. Mart alert - Mart alert.......
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