This In Our Time Liverpool Blitz Footage (1930-1939)

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Reel 4. High angle shot of group of people arriving to walk through the Mersey Tunnel. Just before the opening ceremony people were offered the opportunity to walk through. 1934 - opening ceremony, King George V and Queen Mary attend the opening. Various shots of the crowds and of the King making his speech. He speaks of the many who struggled for long months against mud and darkness to bring it into being. Curtains are raised and the tunnel is opened. High angle L/S of cars entering the tunnel.
1936 - Grand National, Reynoldstown won for the second time. Various shots of horses (including Golden Miller), jockeys and the race.
1935 - Sir Kingsley Wood - Minister of Housing opens a block of flats. Lots of good shots of new blocks of flats - happy children in the playground area etc. Kingsley Wood and Sir Stafford Cripps sit on a swing with a little girl. Low angle shot of lots of children waving from flat balconies - great shot. Narrator speaks of how Liverpool took the lead in health and public baths and wash houses in earlier days. More shots of Liverpool flats. Woman stands and waters the plants on her balcony.
1939 - Second World War. Liverpool became "the gateway to the Western approaches." convoy sequences. Various shots of warships and aircraft carriers at sea. Men at work on board ship hoisting flags, scrambling, operating guns and torpedoes etc. Explosions, smoke emerging from hit ships, ships going down etc. Cargo ships like "sitting ducks" for German raiders and U-boats. Day and night bombing by the Luftwaffe. Men working in ships' engine rooms. Narrator details naval action around Liverpool during the war years. Night shots of pom pom guns and anti aircraft fire. Men under the command of Admiral Sir Max Horton.
War damage to buildings at the docks and to a large factory building. Results of the May blitz - narrator details deaths, injuries and loss of property. Voiceover spoken over still images of bomb damaged buildings. Continued.
FILM ID:1359.06
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@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 2 жыл бұрын

I still have a coin that was handed to everyone who walked through the old Kingsway tunnel on that first day... it was handed to my father who walked it with his two brothers aged 15. I walked through the the Queensway tunnel when it opened in 1971 as a 5 year old... All I got was blisters on my feet !!!

@stevensummers7835 2 жыл бұрын

It's great hearing King George V talking about the tunnel like this , I like right next to this tunnel and he is right we don't appreciate the struggle and effort them men made to put that tunnel into use

@sophiabee8924 Ай бұрын

Love the unveiling of the Queensway. Now I'll always see those curtains rising in my minds eye on my way to Birkenhead 😂

@crazydavec3861 4 жыл бұрын

The flats are Gerard Gardens. The foundation stone was laid in 1935, so I guess that means it was completed in about 1937ish. Demolished in 1987 it was located on the current St Joseph's Crescent in the city centre. Funny to see so many children hanging out of flats... housing associations don't normally place children in flats these days.... though these ones don't seem too upset about it!

@anoshya 2 жыл бұрын

My mother used to stand on the promenade in Blackpool and see a red glow,over Liverpool during the bombing..very sad but the people just like in London had a good spirit generally

@sarcasticbyfar 9 жыл бұрын

great vid

@rhodacashmanbrownbrown2390 2 ай бұрын

We live in Myrtle house there were 11 kids mum & dad x

@stephensmith4480 2 ай бұрын

I grew up in Caryl Gardens opposite the old Southern Hospital.

@JetfireWithy Жыл бұрын

When not on the tugs in his spare time my grandfather Jimmy Kay was there with his wife and her baby (later my father) during the opening ceremony of the Queensway. The Blitz in 1940-41 was brutal on Birkenhead & Liverpool as well as most of the nation I imagine. Although people around the nation wont hear much of it the (Liverpool Blitz) from the government as Jimmy (while he was still working on the tugs) said about at the time Chuchhill didn't want the air raids from the Luftwaffe (JU88'S) to damage national or local morale while moving goods materials from aboard.. Weither these were orders or a bit of hearsay from the people in the underground military bunker in the city center of Liverpool I don't know myself. He did receive extra rations for his work. Anyway they would tell stories from that period and before the war over and over as a kid in the early 00's & I was fascinated by them. In all honesty I didn't care that much about the Blitz as a kid or an adult as I saw it as any other historical event. That was until I saw the New ferry explosion in 2017. To see bricks from a building flying like missiles at you gives a different perspective of what life was like during the wartime years. What I've learned from this like other thing's their is good and bad times with most things in life grab the good parts when you can.