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jonno40 #265405 21st Oct 2008 11:23pm
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My mother was in Mill lane (Highfield) having one of my sisters when a land mine was dropped. They were all told to get under the beds when the sirens went. My mother told me they could hear the bomb which came down on a parachute scraping down the roof but it never went off and was defused by bomb disposal. If it had gone off being under a bed would not have helped and I wouldn't be here now.

The same type of mine was dropped on Lancaster Avenue in Liscard and everyone in a shelter was killed apart from a baby girl who was found alive some days after the raid protected by the bodies of her parents. I believe she went to Canada in later life?

The current police station in Manor road now stands on the site.


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Wallasey central library has ten albums of photos of the bomb damage in Wallasey. It is amazing just how much damage was done all over the borough and they don't cover every bombing.

One really good one of a dirty great unexploded bomb in the living room of 1 Earlston road.

It would be nice if the library people copied them to computer and stuck them on a website before any more are nicked or get damaged.

Shame on those people who have nicked some of the photo's in the past. Spoil it for everyone else why don't you!

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Here is a video on Youtube about Wallasey and Birkenhead during the war.
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Originally Posted by Morseman


The same type of mine was dropped on Lancaster Avenue in Liscard and everyone in a shelter was killed apart from a baby girl who was found alive some days after the raid protected by the bodies of her parents.

The current police station in Manor road now stands on the site.


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I found out today that I have a direct relative named on the WWI Memorial Stone at Hamilton Square and also one on the WWII Plaques on the wall in the Wirral Museum.

All these years and I never knew!


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