Category: The War
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Graham Middleton describes the impact of both wars on Edge Hill and its inhabitants
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 7th October 2014 | 0 Comments
In this piece, Graham recalls the signs of destruction which were to be found on each corner of Edge Hill. Most significant of these were the bombed hollows with its heaps of rubble and broken glass, as well as the dust-filled air. Additionally, Graham describes the lasting impact of World War I which was evinced in the physical wounds some of Edge Hill’s population carried with them. Thus, highlighting... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities, Social Life, The War
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Graham Middleton talks about the fear of Gerry during the war
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham Middleton describes an incident that his mother remembers when a German war plane flew so low she saw the pilot wave to her as she was running down the street.... Read more
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Graham Middleton describes the air raids
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham’s Mother couldn’t go into the shelter at St Anne’s because they weren’t Catholic. They very nearly went into the Durning Road shelter the night of the big disaster where hundreds of civilians lost their lives (http://www.edgehillstation.co.uk/resources/steven-moran-06/). Graham’s mum would wait for her dad to come home from work in Cammel Lairds before going to the shelter even though... Read more
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Graham Middleton tells the story of his Mother’s evacuation to Shrewsbury
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham’s mother was born in Mill Road maternity hospital and grew up in 19 Chatsworth Street. She was evacuated during the war to Shrewsbury along with her brother. They couldn’t live together because they weren’t allowed to sleep in the same bed. His Mother ended up living with a prostitute. She ran away and she ended up with someone who had read the bible fives times! Eventually she... Read more
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Graham Middleton tells the romantic story of how his parents met
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham describes how the trains would rattle the windows of Chatsworth Street as they passed underneath him. His mum first met his dad when he was on leave from the army. He left from Lime Street to return to the front only to get off at Edge Hill to meet with her again, going AWOL (absent without leave). He eventually had to go back to the army but their relationship... Read more
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Evacuation of children on Helena Street during World War 2
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 6th August 2013 | 1 Comments
Photograph showing Helena Street during World War 2 and how it looks today (2010).... Read more
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Piggy Muck Square
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 22nd April 2013 | 0 Comments
My dad born in 1906 and grew up in Edge Hill In a small square colloquially known as Piggy Muck Square. Now demolished, it was at the Junction of Cardigan, Cadogan and Cambridge roads behind the Gas works. Although an asthmatic child he grew out of it and by the age of 12 he boasted that he loaded coal for a tanner a ton on saturdays. This enabled him to... Read more
Categorised under: The War, Railway Connections
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Brian Morris remembers the bombing of the station in the Second World War
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd November 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Morris talks about how Edge Hill station was frequently targeted by German bombers in the Second World War. One famous incident was when a man unhooked an ammunition wagon in Deane Road and drove it away, at great personal risk, to prevent it from going off and blowing up the station: he received a medal for his efforts. He also mentions the infamous bombing of Durning Road, and how... Read more
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Brian Morris recalls seeing prisoners of war in the Second World War
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd November 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Morris remembers how, during the Second World War, he saw American soldiers and Axis prisoners of war uploaded from troopships at the now-defunct Riverside station on the Docks - at Edge Hill, the last two coaches would be detached and pushed down to George’s Dock, and people would disembark from the train and board the ships, and the POWs were put on this train.... Read more
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Brian Willcox recalls being sent to the pigsty when he was evacuated in the Second World War
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 21st September 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Willcox talks briefly about his early life and then moves on to how he was evacuated to Wales, with four of his aunts, in the Second World War. He would wet the bed, and the woman who took him first beat him with a pear tree branch, then made him sleep in the dolls’ cot, and finally made him spend a day in the pigsty, forbidding him to eat... Read more
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Fred Foley remembers Edge Hill just after the war
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 25th July 2012 | 1 Comments
Fred Foley remembers a yard where war surplus was kept at the bottom of Overbury Street. He also explains how he was born on the Wirral because his family were evacuated.... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities, The War
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Mo Clougher recalls how her brother was scared at having to wear a gas mask as a child
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 5th January 2012 | 0 Comments
Mo recalls how her brother was so frightened by having to wear a gas mask as a child that the family decided to move to Huyton-with-Roby.... Read more
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Brenda Allen remembers how her father worked on the railway
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 12th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Brenda Allen remembers how her father worked as a locomotive driver from school, until he joined the army in the Second World War, during which time he was incarcerated in Stalag VIII-B, the notorious prisoner of war camp near Lamsdorf (now Lambinowice) in occupied Poland. Stalag was the name given to POW camps that held non-commissioned soldiers: officers, airmen, sailors and Merchant Navy men were held in separate camps. After... Read more
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Roy remembers how his father came home from the War, and failed to recognise him!
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Roy tells of the time that his father returned home from serving in the Second World War. Roy, his mother, and his sister Pat all went to Edge Hill to greet him. Roy approached his father on the platform, but the latter walked right past him, not having seen his son in four years!... Read more
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Roy recalls the uncertainty over the fate of his uncle, Bobby Sanders
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 19th July 2011 | 0 Comments
Roy tells of how his father served in the Second World War, and was at the end of it reunited with his brother, Ozzie, who served in a different regiment. He also recalls how his mother’s brother, Bobby Sanders, a dispatch rider, was missing presumed dead. When the Dunkirk evacuees returned home, Roy and his family went down the landing stage to see if anyone had new of Bobby,... Read more
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Telford Court residents recall their first jobs
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 10th July 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents from Telford Court Sheltered accommodation share their memories with the school children from St Anne’s primary.... Read more
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Telford Court residents talk about evacuation and gas masks
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 10th July 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents from Telford Court Sheltered accommodation share their memories with the school children from St Anne’s primary.... Read more
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A Telford Court resident talks about a strange custom
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 10th July 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents from Telford Court Sheltered accommodation share their memories with the school children from St Anne’s primary.... Read more
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An ex-train spotter recalls American troops arriving at Edge Hill during the Second World War
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Ex train spotter shares childhood memories of Edge Hill Station and remembers seeing American troops arriving during the war... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers, The War
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Steven Moran and the Durning Road bomb
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Steven Moran tells a poignant story relating to the bombing of Durning Rd air raid shelter.... Read more
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Pat Clarke remembers being visited by her mother as a wartime evacuee
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Pat Clarke talks some more about her evacuation during the war... Read more
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Pat Clarke remembers being evacuated during the Second World War
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Pat Clarke shares her memories of being evacuated during the war at Metals Victorian Christmas event 2010... Read more
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A local resident recalls the May Blitz at Metal’s Victorian Christmas Event in 2010
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Sharing memories with people at Metals Victorian event 2010, remembering the May Blitz in Liverpool... Read more
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A Telford Court resident remembers how a neighbour died due to her fear of bombs
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents from Telford Court Sheltered Accommodation talk to the young people from St Anne’s School and explain about air raid shelters and the fear of the bombs during the war.... Read more
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Telford Court residents talk about air raid shelters in the Second World War
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents from Telford Court Sheltered Accommodation talk to the young people from St Anne’s School and explain about the air raid shelters during and after the war.... Read more
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Telford Court residents recall air raids during the Second World War
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents from Telford Court Sheltered Accommodation talk to the young people from St Anne’s School about what life was like with air raids and bomb shelters during the war and playing on the ‘ollers and in the bombed out houses.... Read more
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Telford Court residents remember moving house and getting a proper bathroom for the first time
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents from Telford Court Sheltered Accommodation talk to the young people from St Anne’s School about being moved out of the area to new estates in Croxteth and Norris Green after the war, and how much of a luxury having a bathroom was.... Read more
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Telford Court residents talk about rationing in the Second World War
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents from Telford Court Sheltered Accommodation talk to the young people from St Anne’s School and explain about ration books and growing your own veg during the war.... Read more
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A Telford Court resident remembers receiving a Red Cross parcel during the war
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents from Telford Court Sheltered Accommodation talk to the young people from St Anne’s School and explain about Red Cross parcels and sweet rations during the war.... Read more
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Frances Green talks about the storage tank at Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Frances Green remembers playing around Edge Hill as a child on the bombsites left from the war... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers, The War
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Chris Markham recalls jumping onto the grassy bank near the station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Chris Markham remembers the Italian prisoners of war who worked at Edge Hill Station during the war and walking past with his mates to talk to them. He also remembers climbing over the wall and landing on the grassy bank.... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers, The War
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Chris Markham recalls talking to an Italian POW who worked at Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Chris Markham remembers the Italian prisoners of war who worked at Edge Hill Station during the war, his own first view of the Station and sitting on the grassy banks watching the trains... Read more
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Frances Green talks about Crawfords biscuit factory
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Frances Green talks about the demolition process in 1953/4 when Crawford’s Biscuit Factory took over the streets around Binns Road. Also during the war when sweets were rare she remembers the girls in the chocolate room throwing chocolate out the windows to the children below and begging for biscuits on Tuesdays and Thursdays outside the gates to the factory. Frances talks about how busy Edge Lane would be of an... Read more
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Frances Green mentions how her aunt worked at the Automatic alongside Ted Ray and Arthur Askey
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Frances Green remembers The Automatic were they made electrical components, during the war they helped with the war effort. Ted Ray and Arthur Askey, well known Liverpool comics, both worked at the Automatic with Frances’s Aunt. Frances’s uncle also worked there but then got into the Post Office which was a cut above The Automatic and meant you were established.... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry, The War
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Chris Markham recalls the bombing of the station during the Second World War
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Chris Markham remembers the blitz and the bombs dropping in the area targeting the station and the marshalling yard. His home had the roof and front door blown off and he remembers hiding under the table in fear... Read more
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Chris Markham remembers soldiers marching up and down Tunnel Road
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Chris Markham remembers watching the soilders marching up and down Tunnel Rd, going off to war from Edge Hill Station and returning to go straight across the road to the Tunnel Hotel were they would meet ladies of a ‘certain choosing’... Read more
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Chris Markham remembers an camp for Italian POWs in Huyton
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Chris Markham talks about the Italian prisoners of war from a camp in Huyton who used to work at Edge Hill station towards the end of the war.... Read more
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Frances Green recalls buying peanut butter as a girl
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Frances Green remembers a shop off Binns Rd called Fleets, were during the war she would buy her favourite treat peanut butter on a square of newspaper.... Read more
Categorised under: Shops & Shopping, The War
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