National History
Ship’s anchor blasted more than a mile away by explosion in Liverpool Blitz
The official Luftwaffe order of battle for the raid on Liverpool and Birkenhead on Saturday May 3rd 1941 makes stark reading. These were ...
National History
When the nation lived in dread of gas attacks on our cities
Thankfully for us all, the cry Gas! Gas! Gas! was never heard on the streets of our cities during the Second World War ...
Local History
The Christmas Blitz of December 1940 – Manchester
In what later became known as the Christmas Blitz, Manchester was raided by hundreds of bombers on the nights of December 22nd and ...
National History
Masks an echo of modern times
War clouds were already gathering in September 1938 when gas masks were handed out at this unnamed Liverpool school in an eerie echo ...
National History
Liverpool store gutted in Luftwaffe raid
The well-known Lewis’s department store in Ranelagh Street, Liverpool, was left a burnt-out shell after Luftwaffe raided the city in the 1941 May ...