This In Our Time Liverpool Blitz Footage (1930-1939)

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

I still have a coin that was handed to everyone who walked through the old Kingsway tunnel on that first day... it was handed to my father who walked it with his two brothers aged 15. I walked through the the Queensway tunnel when it opened in 1971 as a 5 year old... All I got was blisters on my feet !!!

[@stevensummers7835]

It's great hearing King George V talking about the tunnel like this , I like right next to this tunnel and he is right we don't appreciate the struggle and effort them men made to put that tunnel into use

[@ragarse3]

Some excellent and otiginal material emphasisisng the role the merch had made. Didnt realise that the flats shown were once leaders in fashion- didnt seem like that when I was a boy in Liverpool. The blitz in Liverpool was savage and often ignored - as were so many other towns and cities.

[@sophiabee8924]

Love the unveiling of the Queensway. Now I'll always see those curtains rising in my minds eye on my way to Birkenhead 😂

[@anoshya]

My mother used to stand on the promenade in Blackpool and see a red glow,over Liverpool during the bombing..very sad but the people just like in London had a good spirit generally

[@crazydavec3861]

The flats are Gerard Gardens. The foundation stone was laid in 1935, so I guess that means it was completed in about 1937ish. Demolished in 1987 it was located on the current St Joseph's Crescent in the city centre. Funny to see so many children hanging out of flats... housing associations don't normally place children in flats these days.... though these ones don't seem too upset about it!

[@rhodacashmanbrownbrown2390]

We live in Myrtle house there were 11 kids mum & dad x

[@stephensmith4480]

I grew up in Caryl Gardens opposite the old Southern Hospital.

[@jazztheglass6139]

Didn't johny and Jimmy Phillips live in myrtle house in the 1970's-early 1980's ? Or was that Myrtle house ? My nan lived on Almond Place round the corner from the Red Duster pub. It was a great area in the 1970's

[@sarcasticbyfar]

great vid

[@JetfireWithy]

When not on the tugs in his spare time my grandfather Jimmy Kay was there with his wife and her baby (later my father) during the opening ceremony of the Queensway. The Blitz in 1940-41 was brutal on Birkenhead & Liverpool as well as most of the nation I imagine. Although people around the nation wont hear much of it the (Liverpool Blitz) from the government as Jimmy (while he was still working on the tugs) said about at the time Chuchhill didn't want the air raids from the Luftwaffe (JU88'S) to damage national or local morale while moving goods materials from aboard.. Weither these were orders or a bit of hearsay from the people in the underground military bunker in the city center of Liverpool I don't know myself. He did receive extra rations for his work. Anyway they would tell stories from that period and before the war over and over as a kid in the early 00's & I was fascinated by them. In all honesty I didn't care that much about the Blitz as a kid or an adult as I saw it as any other historical event. That was until I saw the New ferry explosion in 2017. To see bricks from a building flying like missiles at you gives a different perspective of what life was like during the wartime years. What I've learned from this like other thing's their is good and bad times with most things in life grab the good parts when you can.

[@mohamedosamael-sayed9267]

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