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Posted By: yoller Where was Wirral underground munitions factory? - 19th Apr 2017 9:01am
There’s an interesting article on the Mail Online website today about a new Imperial War Museum book containing colour photographs from the Second World War …

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4423218/The-Second-World-War-colour.html

… one of the pictures shows women in a Wirral underground munitions factory in 1945 making bullets and cannon shells (scroll down the website page to see it).

Does anyone know where this factory was?

I think that was in New Brighton, just can't recall under which building it was.

Here,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AERg_hNSjHM
Originally Posted by bert1
I think that was in New Brighton, just can't recall under which building it was.

Here,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AERg_hNSjHM



under the indoor fair in New Brighton which became a club called The Creep Inn

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Thanks for the answers, Bert and Derek - really interesting. What an amazing place!
The machinery is still there apparently.
It was in the undercroft of the "new fun palace" on New Brighton sea front. (next to the Floral Pavilion)

I went down there once or twice when I worked there.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205126272
Story in to-nights Echo on this subject .
Brings back memories of many good nights when it was the Creep Inn in the 50s.
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