Liverpool Expats

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I was born in Liverpool in 1936, lived there until I was 15 in 1951. My Dad's job moved us to Leeds. The experience of growing up in Liverpool in those days, will never be repeated. The Blitz, sleeping in the air-raid shelter every night, collecting shrapnel. Our gang went to Formby once, in about 1946. We went to an area in the pine tree woods where the army trained. We dug in a mound of sand where the soldiers fired from and found several live rounds of .303 rifle bullets. When we got back to Liverpool we gathered at the communal brick air-raid shelter (at the junction of Scarisbrick Road and Jermingham Road). Someone got a hacksaw and a tin box and we sawed open all the bullets and extracted the gun powder. Powder into the tin and a tape (the fuse) inserted through a hole. We lit the tape and ran but nothing happened. We tried it several times but then ran out of matches. Disappointed that we hadn't blown up half the neighbourhood, we called it a day. Just a pretty normal day at the time! What memories I have of growing up in a city I will always call home.
 
Methuselah said:
I was born in Liverpool in 1936, lived there until I was 15 in 1951. My Dad's job moved us to Leeds. The experience of growing up in Liverpool in those days, will never be repeated. The Blitz, sleeping in the air-raid shelter every night, collecting shrapnel. Our gang went to Formby once, in about 1946. We went to an area in the pine tree woods where the army trained. We dug in a mound of sand where the soldiers fired from and found several live rounds of .303 rifle bullets. When we got back to Liverpool we gathered at the communal brick air-raid shelter (at the junction of Scarisbrick Road and Jermingham Road). Someone got a hacksaw and a tin box and we sawed open all the bullets and extracted the gun powder. Powder into the tin and a tape (the fuse) inserted through a hole. We lit the tape and ran but nothing happened. We tried it several times but then ran out of matches. Disappointed that we hadn't blown up half the neighbourhood, we called it a day. Just a pretty normal day at the time! What memories I have of growing up in a city I will always call home.
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That's brilliant, love hearing stories like this
 
GrandOldTeam said:
What do you miss about Liverpool?
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Nothing really. Left when I was 6 or 7 though.

But whenever I have been back either for a match, or a family visit, always feel I am coming home. Even though I was bought up, educated, worked, married, have grown up kids, and my parents still live in my small town, down here.

Probably applies to tons on here that.
 


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