Thank you MissM and what a stroke of luck to see dad's Uncle's shop. It just encourages us to keep looking around as you never know what you may find. A lot of the Liverpool records office photos are still untapped but it is my quest to get as many out there to the public as possible.
My site
www.inacityliving.piczo.com also has many
How terrible to hear of the affect this had on your grandad though and what a pity about your mum's possessions after saving so hard like that.
I'm sure Tony would love to use your story on the site.
Yes, the shelters were just built there and pics i've seen of them once removed do not show any evidence of these particular ones going underground like the back garden Anderson shelters. Blackstock Gardens tenements shelter took a direct hit killing up to 200 people, only the thick slab of concrete used as a roof was really the shelter. I expect if your house had a cellar, that'd be better but then again, Durning Road college was hit when the cellar was used and that was the single biggest loss of life of all of Liverpool's air raids I think.