MERSEYSIDE AT WAR • 1939-1945

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  • Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
  • © Luther Pendragon 1992
    A Liverpool Echo Video
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Комментарии • 81

  • @paulinekirkham7945
    @paulinekirkham7945 Год назад +18

    My dear dad was in the Merchant Navy mother who was engaged to him at the time said it was a miracle he survived and came home at the end of the war. My mum and him told my brother and I how Liverpool was indeed bombed to he'll but came through. I am very proud of our Liverpool roots and my parents generation.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 8 месяцев назад

      Stalin's useful idiots.

    • @kevgorry1850
      @kevgorry1850 27 дней назад

      Hi was merchant navy was it for moving army or navy equipment

  • @clairelongshaw4068
    @clairelongshaw4068 8 месяцев назад +10

    Proud to be a Scouser and proud to know of our City’s history.
    Our spirit as a city, and as a people, is unbreakable.

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw 8 месяцев назад

      We should have cut off all funding for Liverpool after the Toxteth riots.
      Brian Clough and Sir Bernard Ingham told the truth about the fans.

    • @clairelongshaw4068
      @clairelongshaw4068 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@JamesRichards-mj9kw God bless you. You sound quite triggered. Jealousy is one of the deadly sins.
      Sticks and stones and all that.
      My Scouse Nanna would describe you as a person who’s ’all fur coat and no knickers’. She’d be right too.
      Enjoy your day 😘

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw 8 месяцев назад

      @@clairelongshaw4068 So glad about the fans.

    • @clairelongshaw4068
      @clairelongshaw4068 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@JamesRichards-mj9kw you know nothing.
      I understand that knowledge is power. You wallow in your self idiotic grandiosity, it suits you.
      Nothing you say or do, could possibly trigger me. I know the truth, end of. When truth and justice are on your side, you find an inner peace.
      You’ll never know that feeling, I do. ❤️

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw 8 месяцев назад

      @@clairelongshaw4068 Mark David Chapman should be knighted.
      We fought the wrong enemy twice.

  • @trevormason1732
    @trevormason1732 Год назад +21

    Best city and people in the uk.

  • @stordytime
    @stordytime 8 месяцев назад +2

    Such a brilliant documentary!!! My Grandad was in the Merchant Navy in both the first and second world wars. During the Battle of the Atlantic, two of his ships were torpedoed and sunk. He miraculously survived both. My Dad meanwhile joined the Army at age 15 by lying about his age and fought in N Africa and Europe till the end of the war. The eldest of my Dad's sisters worked in munitions in Liverpool while the younger sisters wee evacuated to North Wales. My Grandmother stayed in Lawrence Gardens, throughout the war just off Scotland Road. My Mother was a young nurse at The Royal Infirmary and I remember her telling me that she and her friends heard, through word-of-mouth, that Mill Road Maternity Hospital had been hit. They literally dropped everything and made their way to Mill Road to do whatever they could to help. She described the scene as horrifying. God bless them all.

  • @ShaunPeterKelly
    @ShaunPeterKelly Год назад +9

    I was a toddler 3 1/2 years old, I have vivid memories of bombs dropping all around our house, dad was working nights at Gladstone dock, we were in our home made shelter when an enormous bomb destroyed 4 houses a few doors away, ours lost all the slates off our roof and blew in all the windows. Soot coming down the chimney nearly choked us to death.

  • @stephenholmes1036
    @stephenholmes1036 Год назад +6

    My grandfather was a Stevedore sent to Liverpool he was 1 of the 4 brave men killed when the SS Malakan blew up.
    It was due to those 4 mens bravery only 4 people were killed in Huskisson No 2 dock.
    The blast threw him onto the Liverpool overhead railway he died 2 days later.

  • @kdlofty
    @kdlofty Год назад +9

    My grandad (William Joseph Loftus) was a merchant seaman. I remember my late dad telling me that my grandad missed his boat by two minutes seeing my nana (it had literally just cast it's lines off as he got to the dock). So they put him on the next boat. The original boat he should've been on got torpedoed of Nova Scotia and he lost all his mates. There but for the grace of god.....

    • @Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus
      @Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus Год назад +1

      Thank GOD.

    • @kdlofty
      @kdlofty Год назад +1

      @@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus When I said "there but for the grace of God" it was a euphemism. When you said "Thank GOD", I appreciate and respect your opinion and point of view, but in my opinion I wouldn't thank "god" for anything with regards to the war and the absolute living hell that people went through. No "God" would ever allow any of that to happen and then demand that you worship him.

  • @colinjones6072
    @colinjones6072 10 месяцев назад +5

    Can't believe some of the sickening comments obviously didn't have any of those brave men and women in their families. My family were there, proud of them.

  • @gavinbutler5219
    @gavinbutler5219 Год назад +6

    Very moving documentary.

  • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
    @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 11 месяцев назад +4

    Dad was born in Bootle 1919. He was called up for the RN in 1939 and during the next 6 years only got home to Liverpool once. Mum was born in 1926, had just finished school and worked at Barker and Dobson's, then fire-watching in the evening, she always remembered the bombing of "Durning Rd technical College" in Nov 1940 that resulted in the deaths of 166 people. By 1944 she was working in "Rowe Brother's engineering Ltd" in Marybone, assembling air to ground rockets for the RAF ground attack aircraft. They married in 1957.

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw 11 месяцев назад

      Liverpool did not get anywhere near as much as it deserved.

    • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
      @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 11 месяцев назад

      @@JamesRichards-mj9kw Now now James, your mental illness is now pushing you to overstep the bounds of common decency.

    • @clairelongshaw4068
      @clairelongshaw4068 8 месяцев назад

      @@JamesRichards-mj9kwDivvie

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw 8 месяцев назад

      @@clairelongshaw4068 The Blitz was in response to the RAF bombing cities and towns in Germany.

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Churchill began civilian bombing, as J.M. Spaight confirmed in his 1944 book "Bombing Vindicated".

  • @janegallagher6162
    @janegallagher6162 Год назад +3

    My mum and her two sisters, and their aunts, cousins endured this time.e. mum was nine and she shared how her and her mum and sisters would sleep in their Anderson shelter. They were sent away for a short period.
    What a remarkable generation and community. My aunt told me after the bombings, they'd get up the next day and the bus to work, there could be 2 or three house close by blown out, at least the windows. God bless them all.

  • @flynnterry9848
    @flynnterry9848 Год назад +3

    My mum and dad met I town , dad was on a warship and boxed in the city also a nd became a popular FELLA at the stadium. Paddy flynn. He was great fella . Mum and dad lucky to get through this terrible time In history. God bless Everyone BACK then .👍🙏🙏🙏

  • @caz4777
    @caz4777 2 месяца назад

    I knew Dr. George Seymour Swan, ex Liverpool England. He was serving in Liverpool during World War Two, and received the King's commendation for his part in the rescue of Annie Done and Florence Bithell after the Well Lane bombing of 1941. He gave me an account of the event. He said that when Winston Churchhill visited Liverpool, he asked to see the two girls. His reply was "I'm sorry Sir, you can't see them". He said he got an autograph from him. Dr. Swan died at Sydney Australia in 1988 aged 92

  • @willdwyer6782
    @willdwyer6782 2 месяца назад

    Most of us in the US only know Liverpool as the hometown of the Beatles. John Lennon got evacuated to Scotland to avoid the blitz, but Ringo Starr spent some time in bomb shelters as a baby. Paul McCartney and George Harrison were born after the blitz.

  • @paulgilmartin9673
    @paulgilmartin9673 Год назад +3

    My dad was 9 living in Liverpool when this started

  • @davidd5316
    @davidd5316 4 дня назад

    I was born in Liverpool at the start of the war, my father had been called up quickly, because he had a driving licence, my mother had gone back to her mothers, ( nearer the docks ) because she was about to have me, how all mothers in Liverpool, not only survived, but fed us on very meagre rations, WITHOUT any social security or National health service. They were all wonderwomen

  • @manusha1349
    @manusha1349 3 месяца назад +1

    Bless the wartime generation, what amazing stuff they were made of! ❤🇬🇧

  • @mikedixon9089
    @mikedixon9089 9 месяцев назад +3

    My dad lost his brother robert dixon sunk by a uboat ss orapesa he was 16yrs old 😢

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw 8 месяцев назад +1

      Churchill had made all civilian ships legitimate targets during World War I.

  • @susanmason6476
    @susanmason6476 7 месяцев назад +2

    MY CITY MY HOME ❤

  • @louis-8728
    @louis-8728 10 месяцев назад +3

    My Granddad and Great Granddad were in the navy. That’s all I know sadly hahah.

  • @peterwhitaker4038
    @peterwhitaker4038 Год назад +3

    does anyone know that Roscommon street off Netherfield road in Everton was once the home of the guy called Stanley who entered history fame by coming across Dr, Livingstone 'i presume' in Africa.

    • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
      @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 11 месяцев назад

      John Morton Stanley was born in Denbigh North Wales.

    • @peterwhitaker4038
      @peterwhitaker4038 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 yes he was born in Denbigh but came to Liverpool like most do. His name was Henry not John I believe

    • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
      @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 11 месяцев назад

      @@peterwhitaker4038 He was born as John Rowlands in Denbigh, his birth certificate recorded him as a "bastard" due to his abandonment by his young unmarried mother. His father died before he was born, but he was raised by his paternal grandfather in North Wales till the age of five when his grandfather died. He then spent the next 10 years in the "Union workhouse" in St Asaph. From there he then travelled to the US where he struck out to find his own destiny...so I suppose that he may have stayed in Roscommon St for some short while.
      My great grandparents lived in Higham St off Roscommon street 100 or so years ago. I don't think they knew him :)

    • @peterwhitaker4038
      @peterwhitaker4038 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 fascinating. Thankyou

  • @stephenodonnell619
    @stephenodonnell619 7 месяцев назад

    My mother's house was blown up whilst she was hiding under the stairs, I remember her saying that her hair was like grey wire.

  • @junesmallwood4921
    @junesmallwood4921 4 месяца назад

    Amazing that they lived through that situation. And they kept their spirits up .

  • @OllyO-gt8pg
    @OllyO-gt8pg 7 месяцев назад +1

    i live on the other side in wallasey and we get to see the pools waterfront more than the scousers lol.

  • @grahamthebaronhesketh.
    @grahamthebaronhesketh. Год назад +5

    They bombed our Chippy!

  • @frankhornby6873
    @frankhornby6873 2 месяца назад

    The Fokkers blew our chippy to bits!...Natzi Fokkers!....

  • @colhughes3892
    @colhughes3892 2 месяца назад +1

    No mention of the ira bombs that were planted in 1939-40 in liverpool ?

  • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
    @JamesRichards-mj9kw 8 месяцев назад +3

    We fought the wrong enemy twice.

    • @sophiabee8924
      @sophiabee8924 3 месяца назад +1

      How disrespectful. Shame on you.

  • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
    @JamesRichards-mj9kw 11 месяцев назад +2

    We should have cut off all funding for Liverpool in 1981.

    • @irenejohnston6802
      @irenejohnston6802 10 месяцев назад +2

      Who's "we"?

    • @JamesRichards-mj9kw
      @JamesRichards-mj9kw 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@irenejohnston6802 The government.

    • @susanmason6476
      @susanmason6476 7 месяцев назад

      Who the hell are you, what a coward .This city is one of the greatest cities .so make all the comments you want Liverpool will turn the other cheek .

    • @manuelhung7571
      @manuelhung7571 4 месяца назад

      You mean the 'government' that spent countless ££millions££ rebuilding London after the war and spent hardly anything to rebuild Liverpool after the War?

  • @CARLIN4737
    @CARLIN4737 Год назад

    just women talking heads about how poor and hungry they was. Not a great watch.

    • @JD-uq8iy
      @JD-uq8iy Год назад +15

      Just a random comment with no real point , not a great comment .

    • @Incredible14U
      @Incredible14U Год назад +7

      @@JD-uq8iy I guess the men were away fighting mostly. The women and elderly men defended the city. Hence why the women were mostly in the video. My Dad lived on Scotland Road. He served in the Merchant Navy during the war. He said the Germans dropped incendiary bombs. The kids would approach before they went off with sandbags and put out these before they exploded. The Lufftwafa after bombing the docks would shoot up the civilian areas and drop bombs onto civilian homes so they had a lighter load to return to Germany.

    • @philconlan6328
      @philconlan6328 Год назад

      Gobshite

    • @jamesbetara
      @jamesbetara 10 месяцев назад +1

      War isn’t all about glory in battle y’know. Welcome to the reality of WWII for the ordinary folks in Britain…

    • @sophiabee8924
      @sophiabee8924 3 месяца назад

      Brighton and Hove, such a poxy place.

  • @user-xq6sj3jk5x
    @user-xq6sj3jk5x Год назад +1

    Give Joe Owens a voice WhatsApp