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From: hugh jones <>
Subject: Re: [LIV] 1941 Blitz on Edge Hill Station
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 09:13:48 -0700
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Nita Jones wrote:

> On a more cheerful note than our recent conversations (?) - anyone
> remember these events?
> I certainly remember the night the gas works went up. Imagine it was
> Alfred Street but am not too
> good at remembering all the street names now. I lived on Spekeland
> Vale, and remember the night and the next couple of days - tremendous
> damage to the surrounding area of the gas works.

The street was Spofforth Road that took a pounding, it had the Co-op livery
stables, I think that the horses were untouched.
We lived on Cambridge street and took the blast which blew in the parlour
window, the frame, the whole works.
I believe a navy bomb disposal man got awarded the highest possible medal
for his courage.
Nights to remember, we spent a lot of time in the community underground air
raid shelter in Piggy Much Square.
Hugh.

>
> ""Eng Lpool list Hugh Jones) wrote:
> For back ground information.
> The passenger entrance to Edge Hill station is on Tunnel Road. Where
> Tunnel Road, going north, junctions with Wavertree Road going east and
> west, Durning Road becomes a continuation of Tunnel Road running in that
> northerly direction. The public air raid shelter on Durning Road took a
> direct hit resulting in a large loss of life.
> Obviously the target was the marshalling yards adjacent and east of Edge
> Hill station.
> Another target was the gas works on Alfred Street "
> .
>
> Nita
> No Ordinary Grandma
>
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