Liverpool Blitz 70th events today
Im going, anyone else there?
Sunday 1st May 2011
09:45
Vintage cars, motorcycles and military vehicles take up their positions on Williamson Square and Whitechapel
The Merseyside Fire Service Museum will display two wartime fire appliances in front of the Lyceum at the bottom of Bold Street
Members of the Mildhogs Scooter & Motorbike Club will attending with their bikes and dressed in union flags to help fundraise for the veterans’ charities
10:00
Climbing wall open in Williamson Square, manned by the MoD Liverpool Armed Forces Careers Department
Blitz and Peaces will be on the streets ready to capture the imagination of the young and trigger the memories of the old with their songs and stories about life in Britain on the Home Front.
12:00
Professor Codman’s Punch and Judy Show
Lady Singers Company B will perform a medley of well-known wartime songs
12:30
Blitz-themed Sunday lunch at the historic Britannia Adelphi Hotel.
Pupils from St. Julie’s Catholic High School will perform two 1940s themed dance pieces
13:30
Historical address on the Church Street stage followed by an hour with veterans of the Liverpool Blitz
15:00
Professor Codman’s Punch and Judy Show
Lady Singers Company B will return to the stage to perform a medley of well-known wartime songs
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15:30
Pupils from St. Julie’s Catholic High School will perform two 1940s themed dance pieces
16:30
The George Formby Tribute
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