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From: "Barbara Humphreys" <>
Subject: [LIV] Fw: [LAN] 1941 Blitz on Edge Hill Station
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:21:20 +1000



----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Lyon" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 3:41 AM
Subject: Re: [LAN] 1941 Blitz on Edge Hill Station


> Hi Richard
>
> A few years ago, some older folk were relating their memories of this
period
> on television.
>
> One story was that Blacklers Department store was hit and the flames
reached
> over to Lewis`s Department store, both in the heart of the City.
>
> Nearby, there was a German Church, which was untouched.
>
> Apparently, people were saying that "The ******`s" knew that church was
> there.
>
> A true story, but also a bit of fun.
>
> The rail junction at Edge Hill, Bootle Docks and the Atlantic Convoys were
> all part of the essential supply chain of Food, Men, Munitions etc from
the
> Commonwealth & the USA.
>
> This was when the Germans decided that if they couldn`t invade, then they
> would starve us.
>
> Bootle, at this time received the heaviest intensity of bombing per
density
> of population than any other area of the country, including Liverpool &
> London.
>
> Bootle had the Deep Water Docks.
>
> Hope that this gives you an overview of that period.
>
> Charles LYON
> Maghull
> Merseyside
> UK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Beesley" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 7:30 AM
> Subject: [LAN] 1941 Blitz on Edge Hill Station
>
>
> > Hello List
> >
> > In a recent posting Charles Lyon mentioned the 1941 Luftwaffe blitz of
> > Liverpool including Edge Hill railway junction.
> >
> > My grandfather Alfred BEESLEY was Chief Foreman at Edge Hill Station and
> my
> > father told me that during WWII his father had to hide ammunition on
> trains
> > inside the railway tunnels.
> > Can anyone provide any details or accounts of the Blitz with regard to
> Edge
> > Hill Station, the suburb of Kensington or the city centre?
> >
> > Thankyou
> > Richard Beesley
> > Auckland
> > New Zealand
> >
> > Researching :
> >
> > BEESLEY (Kirkby, Liverpool, Wirral)
> > OWEN (Kirkby, Lancs)
> > HOLDEN (Kirkby)
> > ASPINALL (Kirkby)
> > TYRER (Kirkby)
> > FIRMSTONE (Wirral & Wolverhampton)
> > ELLIS (Ellesmere Port)
> >
> >
> >
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