LIVERPOOL'S HEAVIEST BLITZ - NO SOUND

(6 May 1941) HD and 4K versions available in \\Source_Clips\Movietone\HD and \4K ProRes
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[@twiddlybobby]

If you pause at 3 mins 10 seconds, The lady holding the sleeping child in the centre is my Great Grandmother, and the lady over her right shoulder, is my Grandmother. I'm so lucky to see them both on film, if just for a few seconds ! I remember being taken to see My Great Grandmother in an old Victorian house when I was a young boy, and she was very old by then. She used to sit in the window combing her white hair, that hung right down her back, and I remember her having high cheek bones. She was always smiling. I never knew who she was, until a relative showed me two photos of her a few years ago. One as a young lady, and one as an elderly lady. Turns out she lived until she was 96 !

[@fonefilms]

amazing.

[@DONKEYOK]

wow, I can remember my Ma telling me all about this week in Liverpools history, Ma was just 20 at the time and recently married and was trying to get from Ismay Street in Walton to Lime Street station where she was catching the train down to the east coast to be with her soldier husband. Ma said a man and his son gave her a lift on Scotland road and she says she remembers the firemen laying on the floor with exhaustion and that she had to walk from Dale street as the car couldn't get through,thanking the gentleman and his son for the lift she then carried on with her journey on foot to the station avoiding unexploded bombs etc.. eventually ending up in Eastbourne where she lived with my dad until he was sent over seas to India/ Burma where he stayed for the duration of the war Rest In Peace Foks xx.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Thanks for sharing your family history. There are organisations who record personal memories of the WAR, no doubt Liverpool have one. The BBC website used to encourage this. not sure if they do now.

[@l.f.c9973]

Av bin lookin through all these films to see if can see me grandad

[@MrDaiseymay]

Why were they all so cheerful ? ---better than crying I suspect. My mother's family were among all that, two killed, one missing, never found. Mom had moved to Birmingham. and survived their Blitz too.

[@brianpimblett657]

Looks like the safest place to be in an air raid was inside an old red telephone box, 1:14 secs in

[@paulculshaw7216]

Please don't show the same clips over and over it dilutes the quality.....