Originally Posted by
Degsy_b
Hi,
I have a map on my website of the area you refer to
www.worldwar2defences.co.uk The structures are part of old Fort Crosby and it did defend the estuary. The site was built before both world wars but was beefed up during the second world war to defend the North Western Approaches. If you're interested in WW2 Pillboxes and defence structures in merseyside there are more on my website. I am constantly adding locations there are so many it is going to take me a long time to photograph and add them all!
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Hope that helps
Derek
Hi Derek
Thanks for pointing us to your very interesting site. I had a look at the interactive map. I seem to remember dragon's teeth in the fields to the south of the railway bridge on Speke Hall Road. They would have been across the road from the Retail Park but south of the bridge. Am I remembering correctly? This would have been in the Fifties or early Sixties.
I am sure you can answer DaisyChains query about whether there are any other air raid shelters still about in Liverpool. Of course, the
Western Approaches Command Centre at Derby House would be one, but I wonder if there might be other air raid shelters in Liverpool still in existence but derelict or put to other uses? In the postwar years, my grandfather used my family's old
Anderson shelter as a toolshed and I am sure other Liverpudlians did likewise, so there may be a few of those around as well.
Chris
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