My dear dad was in the Merchant Navy mother who was engaged to him at the time said it was a miracle he survived and came home at the end of the war. My mum and him told my brother and I how Liverpool was indeed bombed to he'll but came through. I am very proud of our Liverpool roots and my parents generation.

Best city and people in the uk.

I was a toddler 3 1/2 years old, I have vivid memories of bombs dropping all around our house, dad was working nights at Gladstone dock, we were in our home made shelter when an enormous bomb destroyed 4 houses a few doors away, ours lost all the slates off our roof and blew in all the windows. Soot coming down the chimney nearly choked us to death.

Proud to be a Scouser and proud to know of our City’s history. Our spirit as a city, and as a people, is unbreakable.

Such a brilliant documentary!!! My Grandad was in the Merchant Navy in both the first and second world wars. During the Battle of the Atlantic, two of his ships were torpedoed and sunk. He miraculously survived both. My Dad meanwhile joined the Army at age 15 by lying about his age and fought in N Africa and Europe till the end of the war. The eldest of my Dad's sisters worked in munitions in Liverpool while the younger sisters wee evacuated to North Wales. My Grandmother stayed in Lawrence Gardens, throughout the war just off Scotland Road. My Mother was a young nurse at The Royal Infirmary and I remember her telling me that she and her friends heard, through word-of-mouth, that Mill Road Maternity Hospital had been hit. They literally dropped everything and made their way to Mill Road to do whatever they could to help. She described the scene as horrifying. God bless them all.

My grandfather was a Stevedore sent to Liverpool he was 1 of the 4 brave men killed when the SS Malakan blew up. It was due to those 4 mens bravery only 4 people were killed in Huskisson No 2 dock. The blast threw him onto the Liverpool overhead railway he died 2 days later.

I knew Dr. George Seymour Swan, ex Liverpool England. He was serving in Liverpool during World War Two, and received the King's commendation for his part in the rescue of Annie Done and Florence Bithell after the Well Lane bombing of 1941. He gave me an account of the event. He said that when Winston Churchhill visited Liverpool, he asked to see the two girls. His reply was "I'm sorry Sir, you can't see them". He said he got an autograph from him. Dr. Swan died at Sydney Australia in 1988 aged 92

Bless the wartime generation, what amazing stuff they were made of! ❤🇬🇧

My grandad (William Joseph Loftus) was a merchant seaman. I remember my late dad telling me that my grandad missed his boat by two minutes seeing my nana (it had literally just cast it's lines off as he got to the dock). So they put him on the next boat. The original boat he should've been on got torpedoed of Nova Scotia and he lost all his mates. There but for the grace of god.....

My mum and dad met I town , dad was on a warship and boxed in the city also a nd became a popular FELLA at the stadium. Paddy flynn. He was great fella . Mum and dad lucky to get through this terrible time In history. God bless Everyone BACK then .👍🙏🙏🙏

Can't believe some of the sickening comments obviously didn't have any of those brave men and women in their families. My family were there, proud of them.

Very moving documentary.

My dad was 9 living in Liverpool when this started

My mum and her two sisters, and their aunts, cousins endured this time.e. mum was nine and she shared how her and her mum and sisters would sleep in their Anderson shelter. They were sent away for a short period. What a remarkable generation and community. My aunt told me after the bombings, they'd get up the next day and the bus to work, there could be 2 or three house close by blown out, at least the windows. God bless them all.

Most of us in the US only know Liverpool as the hometown of the Beatles. John Lennon got evacuated to Scotland to avoid the blitz, but Ringo Starr spent some time in bomb shelters as a baby. Paul McCartney and George Harrison were born after the blitz.

Dad was born in Bootle 1919. He was called up for the RN in 1939 and during the next 6 years only got home to Liverpool once. Mum was born in 1926, had just finished school and worked at Barker and Dobson's, then fire-watching in the evening, she always remembered the bombing of "Durning Rd technical College" in Nov 1940 that resulted in the deaths of 166 people. By 1944 she was working in "Rowe Brother's engineering Ltd" in Marybone, assembling air to ground rockets for the RAF ground attack aircraft. They married in 1957.

MY CITY MY HOME ❤

My dad lost his brother robert dixon sunk by a uboat ss orapesa he was 16yrs old 😢

My Granddad and Great Granddad were in the navy. That’s all I know sadly hahah.

Amazing that they lived through that situation. And they kept their spirits up .

They bombed our Chippy!

does anyone know that Roscommon street off Netherfield road in Everton was once the home of the guy called Stanley who entered history fame by coming across Dr, Livingstone 'i presume' in Africa.

My mother's house was blown up whilst she was hiding under the stairs, I remember her saying that her hair was like grey wire.

i live on the other side in wallasey and we get to see the pools waterfront more than the scousers lol.

The Fokkers blew our chippy to bits!...Natzi Fokkers!....

We fought the wrong enemy twice.

No mention of the ira bombs that were planted in 1939-40 in liverpool ?

We should have cut off all funding for Liverpool in 1981.

just women talking heads about how poor and hungry they was. Not a great watch.

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