Blitzed: Liverpool lives | National Museums Liverpool

Personal accounts and incredible photographs reveal the impact of the Second World War on the people of Liverpool in the exhibition Blitzed: Liverpool lives, at the Museum of Liverpool.
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The port city of Liverpool and surrounding areas were key targets for German bombers during the Second World War (1939-45). In Merseyside more than 4,000 civilians were killed, 10,000 homes were destroyed and 70,000 people made homeless during air raids, which peaked in the Blitz of May 1941.
Liverpool itself suffered the second highest number of civilian deaths in air raids in the country and, due to censorship, press reports often didn’t tell the whole story.
At the heart of this exhibition is the people of Liverpool; those affected by the Blitz - their memories, struggles with the aftermath and how they rebuilt their lives in the face of a terrible onslaught.

[@theodoracochrane317]

I was 5 when the war started and living in Liverpool. My father was one of the brave regular firefighters who fought the blaze in the docks every night. Later he joined the RAF and was killed in a Sterling bomber on June 7the 1944.

[@NationalMuseumsLiverpool]

Thank you for sharing your memories, your father was clearly a very brave man. We are gathering memories and responses to the images and memories in the exhibition. Could you tell us where you lived during the war and what your father's name was please?

[@manuelfedericocachazasanju5294]

BRAVE MAN YOUR FATHER WAS,WHO RISKEDHIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY 🇬🇬🇬🇧💖💖💖💖💖🙏💪👍

[@robinhughes8822]

It’s Remembrance Day and I stupidly hope for world peace .Everybody forgets how hard cities and towns had it ,Liverpool ,Newcastle,Coventry ,Bristol ,Plymouth etc they all had there own blitz ,my Dad was a child in LIverpool and told me how they went through hell but as a child thought it was normal.Tuff people the scousers and very under appreciated for the way they kept there docks open for supplies.RESPECT to Liverpool ❤

[@sandymarsden6536]

There was still a huge amount of bombed out wasteland, especially down by the docks, qhen I was growing up in the 'Pool in the seventies. There was also quite a lot of damage all the way up Lower and Upper Parliament Street too. Didn't really get fixed until the mid-nineties.

[@Noah1997callahan]

Dropping bombs on little Paul John George and Ringo!

[@alanmiller8887]

The oldest two Beatles, were Conceived,... but not yet born, during the period of the bombing! We are covering all this action storyline stuff, in the TV mini series that is presently being written. Al Miller

[@Noah1997callahan]

@@alanmiller8887 interesting!! I was just making a joke but I’m glad you brought facts to it :)

[@alanmiller8887]

No! Only Ringo and Paul were conceived during Bombing raids, (and born after they had ended.)... .The other two Beatles came about much later.

[@Noah1997callahan]

@@alanmiller8887 John and Ringo were the oldest.