We were saved from the worst of the mine by the high railway embankment between. We were hiding under the stairs when the bomb in Bromborough Road apparently fell into soft ground and the blast went upwards. Even so it almost demolished the old cottages on the railway side, although the old 'Brown Cow' and the 'Gladstone Arms' survived.
If you look at the houses at the bottom of Well Lane Tranmere, you will notice they are modern {1960s} on the righ hand side facing towards the police station and on the left hand side they are also more modern properties before you reach the large older semi's. This is because a land mine dropped there and blew the original area to pieces. After the rubble was cleared on the right hand side you could walk through from Farfax Road into Well Lane.
Ships that pass in the night, seldom seen and soon forgoten
I used to live opposite Christ Church Claughton(on Borough Rd) and I seem to remember my mum telling that the school and the houses at the bottom of Brattan Rd was destroyed by a mine.
my mum lived on borough road opposite where the pyramids is now.she was evacuated to bala, she must have been lucky cos she says she was with a nice family. her brothers were in bala too, not the same family and they also had a nice family to stay with. they all have happy memories of their evacuation.
Post traumatic Stress Disorder as we probably all know is not a disorder confined solely to war or battlefield participants, as this is a war time related thread my comments are only related to that area. Bri remarked "we just got on with it" a remark i have heard from my parents, aunties, uncles and grandparents but in reality people who suffered from PTSD didn't and couldn't. It seems that now anyone who suffers from this is frowned upon, this is what happens when problems of this nature are given fancy names. If we look back through conflicts, the first world war it was known as Shell shock, the second world war it was known as Battle fatigue and in following conflicts exhaustion in service. I feel service men and women who suffer from this condition would receive better understanding if it was still called shell shock or battle fatigue instead of a name that has no bearing on war time activities.
God help us, Come yourself, Don't send Jesus, This is no place for children.
Unexploded German parachute mine in the garden of a house in Score Lane, Childwall, Merseyside, November 1940. These mines normally exploded about 200 feet above ground. The aim of ground defence forces were to try and blow them up at a higher altitude to minimise there destructive effect.
God help us, Come yourself, Don't send Jesus, This is no place for children.
Unexploded German parachute mine in the garden of a house in Score Lane, Childwall, Merseyside, November 1940. These mines normally exploded about 200 feet above ground. The aim of ground defence forces were to try and blow them up at a higher altitude to minimise there destructive effect.
Bloomin heck, thats not what you want to find in the garden next morning !!.
