Post by geoff on Nov 28, 2011 14:25:32 GMT -5
Liverpool Fire Service registered were most bombs were dropped on the City and outskirts . To my knowledge Gateacre was lucky with only one bomb in 1940 hitting Belle Vale Road and Incendiary Devices setting fire to farm out buildings in Wambo Lane. There were no Casualties.
Childwall and Broadgreen were a different matter.
Parachute mines that were intended for the river drifted inland and came down on houses in Bowland Avenue Score Lane Glenconnor road and Childwall Abbey Road . There were many Casualties .
The worst in the area was a direct hit on a Air Raid Shelter at the Rocket Broadgreen were 28 local People were killed.
My parents who lived by Jacksons Farm told me they dreaded the sound of the Parachute mines as they drifted overhead . It seems the Mines were attached to the parachutes by chains and they use to rattle as they came down . As well as this was the sound of the Anti Aircraft Guns firing at the bombers as they passed over head These guns were positioned in the fields between Jacksons Farm and Childwall Valley Road .
My older brother Les told me these Anti Aircraft Guns were later positioned in Childwall Woods .
It all seems unbelievable now. But people went through and suffered so much back then.
Childwall and Broadgreen were a different matter.
Parachute mines that were intended for the river drifted inland and came down on houses in Bowland Avenue Score Lane Glenconnor road and Childwall Abbey Road . There were many Casualties .
The worst in the area was a direct hit on a Air Raid Shelter at the Rocket Broadgreen were 28 local People were killed.
My parents who lived by Jacksons Farm told me they dreaded the sound of the Parachute mines as they drifted overhead . It seems the Mines were attached to the parachutes by chains and they use to rattle as they came down . As well as this was the sound of the Anti Aircraft Guns firing at the bombers as they passed over head These guns were positioned in the fields between Jacksons Farm and Childwall Valley Road .
My older brother Les told me these Anti Aircraft Guns were later positioned in Childwall Woods .
It all seems unbelievable now. But people went through and suffered so much back then.
