Ammunition Train DESTROYED During Liverpool Blitz!

[@growlers90]

As a 16 year old (1976)me and a bunch of friends were messing around in the recently drained boating lake in Newsham park ( approx 2 miles away) and we found a hand grenade and took it to Tuebrook police station. Got home and told parents who lived through the war. They told me all about this. They said people were finding all kinds of bits and pieces for miles around. Their house was other side of railway (Pinehurst Ave).

[@ScouseFarm]

UXO is still being discovered today. I know Newsham Park well, spent many hours running around the park. Thanks for watching.

[@JohnMon72]

Wow! Another fascinating video. Brilliant that mate. The balls of those railwaymen…… I believe when one of them was asked why he didn’t run away, he said he wouldn’t have been able to run far enough to a place of safety if any more were going to blow up, so he stayed and split the train, leaving the burning wagons where they stood so the fire couldn’t spread and cause the others to explode. 👍

[@ScouseFarm]

It certainly was a great show of courage at a time when so many people come together and helped each other out. Nice one mate.

[@stephensmith4480]

My Nanna, Mum and Aunties all lived through the Blitz mate, they lived just off the bottom of Hill St, near the dock Rd. My Mum said it was a terrible and frightening time, something we, I am glad to say, can't comprehend. Another city that got hammered, that you don't often hear about, is Belfast. They too had the docks and a lot of heavy engineering factories, all vital to the War effort. One of the RAF Bases that was there was RAF Maze, it was the biggest one in Ireland and would later become the site of Long Kesh, the internment camp, used during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. It was then where the new prison was built HMP Maze, infamously known as The H Blocks.

[@ScouseFarm]

True, you don't hear hardly anything about the Belfast attacks. Even to this day we both seem to be way down the list when people talk about German bombing raids during the 40s. Thanks for watching.

[@tompybis4521]

There was also a amunitions factory on kirkby industrial estate and trains were in and out there too. The line is still there what runs up to the estate at the back of kirkby .the line is original but all the tracks are new of course and still get used today .

[@ScouseFarm]

Yes mate, it was a busy Ordnance Factory back in the day. Thanks for watching.

[@StevenHolmes-s3e]

I read recently that the Chinese had restricted the supply of cotton used to make nitrocellulose, also known as gun cotton, to the Russians who were using it to pack missiles to attack The Ukraine! Pollarded trees (topped trees), usually yews or elms, in the background were used in medieval times to make bows and arrows from the poles that then sprouted from the topped tree trunk! I am a tree geek in case you hadn’t noticed? Thanks for the video, mate!

[@ScouseFarm]

Nice one mate, thanks for the info and thanks for watching.

[@AdikiaMedia]

Barking dogs, screaming kids and now helicopters, give SF a break 😂 great video again mate, very informative 👏

[@ScouseFarm]

Nice one mate :) I think he was looking for me, haven't paid my Council Tax ;)

[@AdikiaMedia]

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[@paulmurray5209]

This railway was meant to be closed down in the eighties but with thatcher closures of the mines they started importing coal from Poland so the train you saw was bringing the coal from the docks to around wavertree and edgehill

[@ScouseFarm]

Yes, it was a Drax Car being pulled so it's full of power station coal. Thanks for watching.

[@LeChatNoir-z8h]

Mentioning Basil Rathbone, he has a connection to Liverpool. He was an officer in the Liverpool Scottish, 10th battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment, during the first world war...

[@ScouseFarm]

Yes, I've mentioned his connection in the comments section. His Father is from Liverpool so he's 'technically' half Scouse. Thanks for watching.

[@seanmarston1730]

Enjoyable watch thanks, I've seen another film I can't think of at the mo that left out Liverpool naming other city's. Ironically Basil was related to the Rathbones of Liverpool and I've read he often visited his uncle in Greenbank Park

[@ScouseFarm]

Yes, Basil is the Son of Liverpool's Edgar Rathbone so he's half Scouse. Thanks for watching.

[@seanmarston1730]

Not forgetting Bamber Gascoyne is a descendant if Bamber Gascoyne too haha

[@alananderson5163]

There was another disaster many years later, it was due to this explosion. A number of council houses were bought under the right to by scheme. The new owners put in double glazing and generally up graded their newly purchased homes. When a 3 year period had elapsed they were free to sell them on but there was a snag, no building society would give a mortgage on a bomb damaged property that had been cosmetically repaired. So the new owners could only sell them back to the Council for the same price that they had paid losing all anticipated profits and also being out of pocket as the home improvements were included in the basic price the Council paid to re purchase the properties.

[@ScouseFarm]

That does not surprise me. Nothing has changed. Thanks for watching.

[@Redfox_UK]

Voice of terror 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 I watch those films too. Really good video, very interesting

[@ScouseFarm]

Yep, great films. Basil Rathbone who played Sherlock Holmes is a descendant of Liverpool's famous Rathbone family. I forgot to mention that, thanks for watching.

[@KPP365]

Greetings from Paddy's house 😊 Great peace of local history. I wonder ? If like the docks, Their are any unexploded ordnance in these fields and other areas ? I bet their is .

[@ScouseFarm]

Kids were picking up rifle rounds in that field for years according to the subscriber who tipped me off. We often have some UXO dug up in Liverpool. There was one on the road to Maghull not that long ago. Thanks for watching.

[@ian4699]

Awesome🎉

[@grumpymusic7073]

My mum's house lost their roof Vicar Road

[@ScouseFarm]

So many houses were badly damaged because of this attack, there are still people living at the back around the Pinehurst Estate area that know nothing about this incident on their very doorstep. Thanks for watching.

[@grahamcole-y5s]

i remember my grandad taking me too watch the tar works burn on hawthorn road in bootle , where the new tesco is now , that was mad , have a look into that

[@ScouseFarm]

Nice one, thanks for watching.