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Lancashire / Re: Rootes Aircraft Factory Speke WW2
« on: Sunday 31 December 17 09:49 GMT (UK) »
I lived opposite the factory at 95 Hale Rd until I went to uni at 18 in 1961. I could see it clearly from my bedroom. The factory had a zig zag roof with a camouflage pattern painted on it. The 2 houses behind ours lost their roofs during araid. Don't recall my parents mentioning the facory being bombed. My dad worked their build planes. The paving flags leading tthe airfield were badly cracked - caused by te planes?
I remeber watching the buses go up the road to the facory and turn around at the front gate. There was a lane tothe left which led to Critchley's? farm. Fantastic blackberries and a pond at the end where there were millions of tiny frogs one year. One year 1946/47 I was stung by a bee/wasp and pushed back home in my pushchair by my sister and the local gang of kids!
There was a field to the right of the road with an old shelter/AA gun site? were a local kid was burnt with acid, carelessly left behind.
More damage was caused to properties in Speke when it was expanded to rehouse inner city residents - many of whom did a pretty good job of vandalisng the place far more effectively than the Luftwaffe ever managed to do,
I remeber watching the buses go up the road to the facory and turn around at the front gate. There was a lane tothe left which led to Critchley's? farm. Fantastic blackberries and a pond at the end where there were millions of tiny frogs one year. One year 1946/47 I was stung by a bee/wasp and pushed back home in my pushchair by my sister and the local gang of kids!
There was a field to the right of the road with an old shelter/AA gun site? were a local kid was burnt with acid, carelessly left behind.
More damage was caused to properties in Speke when it was expanded to rehouse inner city residents - many of whom did a pretty good job of vandalisng the place far more effectively than the Luftwaffe ever managed to do,