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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.