Do you remember the Jacobs Cream Crackers advertising hoarding in Bootle, with 3D effect delivery vans?

@@paulinecabbed1271 I don't remember that but as a child we rarely ventured out of Crosby as we didn't have a car and when I grew up and started work in Liverpool, I always got the train so didn't really get to see much of the 'outside' world! I bet my husband remembers them, though! 😊

Glad it was helpful!

you've just answered a 40+ year old mystery - why it was always referred to as the erosions. I never asked but did wonder. We used to swim in that sea, sewage and all, when we were kids.

@@janeh3803 going home with oily sandals was a great crime in our house! :)

@@skulptor that brings back memories. We were so lucky growing up where we did. :)

We used to spend time laughing at all the ‘blow in’s’ coming out of the sea covered in black oil. We knew better not to go in as well as navigating the quick sand ! We were told as kids a tanker full of oil sank in the Mersey but doubt that was true !

Also known as Accrington Brick

I think i seen a picture not long ago of that it looked amazing

hi martin thanks for watching glad you like the video deffo worth a visit this place

Hi George, what's the best train station to get off to see the rubble at the beach? Is it Crosby and Blundellsands thanks

@@martinsallenger5526 hall road station mate then follow hall road right down until yoh hit the car park then pick up the path on the right

Thanks, George. l check out when the weather is good 👍

@@martinsallenger5526 great stuff mate have a good time its vast down there

I grew up on Rumney Road in the 60's, you could still see the damage from the bombing all over Kirkdale . I also remember what we called the odd men from the Kirkdale homes who used to go to the handicraft center off Orwell Road opposite the Irwins/Tesco place, I now know they were mainly ex servicemen suffering from severe PTSD or the son of the shop owner on the corner of Stour Street/ Sessions Road next to St Johns Infants School who had his arm blown off and had a steel prosthetic arm with a hook. My grandfather survived the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 and then joined the Royal Navy. During the second world war he was an auxiliary Fireman and worked at Bootle gas works on Litherland Road. One night during the May Blitz in 1941 he was on top of a gasometer trying to damp it down and saw the block of houses on Chestnut Grove where he lived lift into the air and crumble, he had to finish his shift before he could find out if my grandma, my mum, my aunts and uncles were still alive, luckily just for once they'd gone to a shelter. In the late 90's my dad decide to turn the loft into a man cave for his model railway layout and found an intact incendiary bomb. Rather than call the bomb disposal team he waited until my mum was out for the day then called me to help him dispose of it, it's one of my favorite my crazy dad stories and there are a lot of stories. To be fair my dad was ex Royal Artillery so he knew his explosives, they'd just had new carpets fitted and didn't want a bunch of Royal Engineers big dirty boots wrecking it. I still have my grandads Fireman's axe and the fin off the bomb.

@@robertdraper5782 I also remember the shopkeeper with the prosthetic arm I think his name was Riley, always wore a brown overall coat. There were a lot of men with either legs or arms missing after the war. So So sad.

Cheers paul much appreciated mate glad you liked the vid glad diana like the shoutout to

Cheers for watching its such a lovely place is crosby beach

Thats very true mate i always look up when in the city and that so many buildings as you say you walk past em and not know the history date stones etc Thanks for watching mate glad you like the content lots more to come

I think there was a person doing that very same thing trying to piece together what buildings were what etc

Cheers glad you like it Yeh the swearing is now all toned apologise for that The txt i was using new editing software and didnt do it big enough and the time it took to remder which was about 4 hours i just left it as it was. Will be down that way once lockdown is lifted to film part 2 Thanks again

Cheers bill glad you like it

Its a real strange feeling down here you can make out various bits of kitchen and living rooms fireplaces etc even shop fronts Cheers glad you likes it mark

Thanks glad you like the vid

such a sad place this so quiet aswell especially the further you go up

If only they could mate cheers for watching

Oh I'm just so sorry for everything, I'm sure that man was a great person and wonderful for you. I'm actually 11 right now, and it's a lot more peaceful now! :)

Cheers thanks for the info

You should be able to visit the cemetery and look up their registers. Full name and religion and approximate date of death should get you the plot number

Cheers neil

Wow thats mad

They are rounded because of erosion by the waves washing over them, now

Cool ill take a look yes we done that pillbox a while back....fort crosby is it? Video on my channel if its the same one

Yes Fort Crosby, about a mile further North than the Coast Guard station. And a Prisoner of War camp

Yes quite a lot of it im told

enjoy mate there's quite a few videos on my channel now since this one

That’s so interesting. Is the cemetery still there where baby is?

@raechellynch6659 i think not long after i made this video the stone was removed

Well its locally known as blitz beach

rubble is everywhere

was that fort crosby?

@@g2emedia1977 yes (sort of) it was an addition or extension to Fort Crosby. My dad and I went down to watch them blowing up the battery or gun emplacements, One Sunday. They didn’t use enough explosive the first attempt, there was a big puff of smoke and dust, but not much damage. They tried again the following week with more success.

Cheers glad you liked it yeh apologise for the swearing i didnt know i was doing it until i started editing i got a bit overehelmed with this place and didnt realise i started swearing ....cheers for the sub....wales is brill cant wait for lockdown to ease so i can get bk there

Where has it gone

I enjoy it around here lovely in summer

@@g2emedia1977 actually just remembered there was a girl there picking through it all I asked what she was looking for she said she was a PhD student doing a thesis on it. Was from up Newcastle way I think.

Far from ugly.

Cheers yeh calmed it down a lot since ....sometimes i don't even know I'm doing it

Ignore me comment mate. Ye on it🤣 amazing place

lol no worries matey yeh good these arent they those shelters

Lol do you know how heavy that was?

Two strapping lads like you pair? Interesting vid. I believe bricks and other building ruble also line the mouth of the mersey on the new brighton side to stop silt advancing into the river.

You'd need at least 4 people to lift that and shortly after i posted that vid the grave was removed so all good Cheers for watching

Get to the jym 😁 👍