right guys been trying to do this for ages and still not sure if it is right but i'll soon find out..lol
small booklet from 1943 daily post and liverpool echo which was unearthed at my nans house.not strictly wirral history but close enough and there are a few wirral pics,it is not in great condition but readable.

pages 1-10
pages 11-20
pages 21-30
pages 31-40
pages 41-52

seems to work but loads very slowly on my pc..patience guys

Thanks for the booklet phalinmegob - very interesting read

Very interesting, thanks for posting it.

Thanks. As a result of this post, I just bought a copy from Amazon. (Not an original copy: it was re-printed in 1983 by Scouse Press).

glad you enjoyed it chris

Will post more when I have the time.

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Great pics. Neil. Thanks. Picture No.2 looks as if it was taken from the overbridge at Park Sta. You could (maybe still can) see the "new" brickwork on the bridge. Understand it was aerial mine that came down on a parachute and exploded. The old Mersey Railway cars were built like brick outhouses and withstood most of the blast. All were repaired pronto.

That area from Castle St. to Paradise St. and Lord St. to Custom House must have been the most devastated as regards the number of buildings obliterated. It's amazing how the Victoria statue survived!
Bri

In the Borough Road photo, note how the back yard air raid shelters survived. Proof that they did the job well.
Bri

Very interesting photos Neil - thanks for posting and waiting for more!!

Which area of Borough Road is that? Is it Christchurch, Oxton in the background? Would that make the area Briardale Road or maybe Carlton Road?

That's the old children's hospital in the background, its a bit farther down than the Carlton, Christ Church Primary is on the right of the picture (looking untouched!).

Picture is taken roughly from where the shell petrol station is now.

I know where you mean, cheers. What is the circular structure centre picture?

some more...

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Great photos - thanks again Neil

I also have this book, its a realy fascinating insight into merseyside during the early years of WW2.
Printed by The Liverpool Echo and Daily Post in 1943 and costing Two Shillings and sixpence (Twelve and Half Pence now)
You should post the page titled "Human Cameos" (half way thru)

Thought you'd like some snaps of the Westinghouse stock :-)

amazing pictures there did huyton or page moss ever get hit??

Heikel: I think the circular tank in Borough Road was an EWS tank. (Emergency Water Supply). For use in putting out fires if the mains were ruptured. That said, most of the others I have seen were rectangular ones. Can't think of what else it could be ?

The circular structure is possibly a temporary depot for clearance work and equipment.

I had the original and lost it but have the reprint.

as requested

The circular thing is an EWS as already stated.

perhaps Pinz remembers them like this.

No Bert that pic is of a typical Birkenhead home brew tank!

The emotive 'Brides Trosseau' pick was later post war revealed to be a woman stealing curtains froma bombed house. nothing changes on Merseyside!

Yes Bert, that's more like an EWS tank. Not old enough to remember them in use of course. I remember one being used as a water storage tank in a nursery/market garden that was near Woodchurch Rd/Storeton Rd lights. Was on a steel trestle affair to give a decent head I suppose. They built houses on the plot in the late '50's I guess.

"EWS" was stencilled in yellow paint on walls, with an arrow indicating the nearest supply. Those signs lasted for years after the unfortunate misunderstanding with Herr Hitler.

Just when I should have been learning to swim all the public baths were turned into EWS storage tanks. There was no-one to maintain them and they turned green and slimey! Put me off swimming for life!

Going on past memory of what i have read and been told the EWS tanks in this area were mainly rectangular, though there was circular tanks in other areas,(read recently, now i can't find it) 7M x 2m high. Children use to swim in them on hot days. The swimming baths that were used as temporary EWS tanks were also used as temporary mortuaries.