The big storm

[Waterways]

This is a long shot but does anyone remember the big thunderstorm that hit liverpool sometime in the late 60's early 70's, cant remember the exact year . It started in the late afternoon and went on till the early hours . It started quite normally but became more violent as the night wore on, with lightning almost every second. I have never witnessed a thunderstorm like it since . Can anyone remember it, it or know what year it was ?

1967. I remember it as a kid. It was a normal storm with the odd lightening and rain at first. I was in bed asleep and a boom and shaking like bombs going off woke me up. My mother came into my room crying thinking the bombers can come over again. Then it hit me what the whole population must have gone through, and the terror they felt as they heard the planes engines above and loud explosions around them. It was like being in an air raid - the closest I will get to experience it.