WW2 Liverpool Bomb Damage Rubble,Blitz Beach,Crosby Beach - DJI Osmo Pocket - DJI Mavic Air Drone -
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ต.ค. 2020
- TODAY WE EXPLORE THE REMAINS OF WW2 BOMB DAMAGE RUBBLE AT CROSBY BEACH FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR BLITZ ON LIVERPOOL AND SURROUNDING AREAS.
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edited and graded in davinci resolve 16 studio
PT2 coming soon
Left Crosby in 1974 and only been back a few times. The change is staggering! I remember travelling with my Nan by bus around 1957, going to Liverpool Rodney Street to see the dentist to get fitted for a brace (braces were great big, gob stopper things in those days!) and as I looked out of the bus window I saw so many buildings which had been bombed. It was quite common to see the side of houses blown away and see a bed, complete with sheets blowing in the breeze; curtains flapping off broken curtain rails; upended chairs. And some people complain about wearing a mask at the moment, feeling they are being hard done-by! They've no idea.
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! 😊
Great video. I'm a yank who lived in Widnes and the northwest for eight years. I've always wanted to know more about this beach. I saw a small exhibition down Liverpool town center of pictures of the rubble but never knew where to go see it. Thanks a ton. Great vid.
Glad it was helpful!
I’m from there. Played all my childhood round there. The tipping went on into the sixties. It was put there to stop the Alt and sea erosion. The area was called the erosion by locals. There was also a lot of wood and rubbish but that has been mostly removed by time. Until late 80s there was a sewerage outlet there which made the beach less pleasant than it is now.Nice to see it ..I live a thousand miles away now.
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 !
Amazing photographs. Reminds us how badly damaged this city was. Like scenes from central Europe.... From the Ashes we rose...
It's an interesting film. Some of the beautiful red brick (like the one early on in the video) in Liverpool's buildings had come from Ruabon in Wales, such as the Victoria Building on Brownlow Hill.
Also known as Accrington Brick
I believe some of the limestone, more solid rubble was from the old Customs House that stood opposite the Albert Dock.
I think i seen a picture not long ago of that it looked amazing
Fantastic George very informative great clarity with your camera and professionally put together and Diana was shocked with your shout out well done look forward to the next video.
Cheers paul much appreciated mate glad you liked the vid glad diana like the shoutout to
Hi Georg and Eric, great photos of the beginning of your video. I've never seen some of them before,l have heard of Crosby Beach before but have never been before. I definitely will give this a visit. There's probably lots of great finds hidden away. Great and interesting video 👍
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
GREAT THAT GEORGE!..I REALLY LOVE THE EARLY REFERENCE OF THE POLICE ARCHIVE PICTURES..BANG ON!!
Cheers bill glad you like it
nice one. cheers
Totally fascinating. The architecture of these buildings must have been something to see. I often look up in town to see the tops of buildings, like a lot of what you have shown. We miss a lot by just walking but not looking. Thanks mate, your content in this and others is first class.
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've been meaning to go back here for ages. And then this video pops up. Thanks for the reminder
Cheers for watching its such a lovely place is crosby beach
Really loved the video.the history is fab.struggled to read the writing at begining could do with being bigger.youve captured a lot with your filming loved the drone.
One of the best camera work by far.can i say i swear like a trooper but you do could do with editing the effing out.your audience range would be greater.looking forward to watching future videos.when covid done id love to visit this area.brill brill.see you soon.x
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
You’ll find a lot of this rubble is from the large mansions that were along there and literally feel into the sea from the “Erosion” which is what us locals knew as it better
I’m from Kirkdale born 1946, in the early fifties we would go to that area for a picnic up on the grassy parts.
It was great fun climbing over so much rubble..
My Dad was a fireman all through the war, some nights he couldn’t get home due to the bombings, my mother didn’t know if he was dead or alive!
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.
If only those stones could talk what tales they would tell eh?. Fascinating video guys, thank you!...
If only they could mate cheers for watching
Hello great video likes the story at the beginning of the movie and great shots overall
Have a nice days
Thanks glad you like the vid
Wow what a mess! My dad said the Germans flew over preston turned left at st walburgs church steeple and went to Liverpool, so sad xx
such a sad place this so quiet aswell especially the further you go up
Brilliant 👍
Cheers neil
Theres loads of rubble like that as well as 'dragons teeth' on the Oglet shore. When I went for a wonder down there I came away with an end cap off a Mills bomb!
The history of so many lives on that beach. Do you get the feeling that somewhere amongst all that you'll find a brick or something that would link a whole building together. Nice to see someone who has a drone but mixes it with live and commentary.
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
I’m sure if you were to get photos of all the similar pieces of that building it would be possible to identify the building that they belonged to. Those s features are pretty unique. I’ll bet a historian would help you find out.
I think there was a person doing that very same thing trying to piece together what buildings were what etc
I can remember Fort Crosby when it stil had the fence around it, and a security person asking children to leave the site. Some years later they were extracting sand from the site, I suppose for making concrete?
some bricks and rubble fro,m widnes there as well from Milton Road, Hale Road, Windermere Street and surounding areas of widnes
Cheers thanks for the info
Ho goodness seeing the baby's headstone brought a tear to my eyes, love the history of liverpool, I'm trying to find my grandparents my mums parents, I know they are buried in bootle cemetery my mum was an only child she didnt talk much about them when I was born we lived with them but they both nan first then grandad died around 1954, they weren't very old only in their early 50s, so it's on my bucket list to find their graves, x
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
We use to build houses on the beach there when my kids was young . With all the rubble. About 20 years ago.
Our house was flattened during the May Blitz,I was just a baby so I can't remember,we were saved by the air raid shelter down the yard,next store hid under the stairs,they weren't so lucky,six died.
Also, from memory, I think there was a big Rabbit Warren on the land between Crosby and Hightown
Wow just think of the stories those bricks could tell if they could about the history of what those buildings were , I'm originally from bootle we left when I was 11 years old ended up in Warwickshire as dad had to find work 1964 I've been back lots of times over the years to visit a old friend of my mums a d her kids I grew up with as kids, I'm now just turned 68yrs recently lost my husband who passed away sudenly in his sleep, our last visit was october 2018 my husband was going to bring me again as I wanted a trip on the ferry a cross the mersey but he passed away april 2019, then to make things worse we had the covid lockdown, but it's my mission to come visit liverpool on my own a d see the places and go on the ferry we didnt get to see I remember so much from my childhood someone said to me.. you can take the girl out of liverpool but you cant take liverpool out of the girl, lol xxxx keep the videos comeing I'll subscribe best wishes Anne from oxford xxx
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! :)
I bet also this Port of Liverpool would have lost 1000s of Merchant Seamen 😢 who were working to keep Britain 🇬🇧 from starving; God bless you brave men; RIP ❤
I'm going to drive over on Sunday. My sister collects bricks. Be good to find a couple of named bricks. Your video is fascinating.
They are rounded because of erosion by the waves washing over them, now
theres a place near there were all the cast iron lamposts were dumpd and there was a lot of them at one time
My mum around 4 years old (Mary Teresa Green) was playing in dead end ally and was strafed by a Nazi aircraft who luckily missed her, she said bullets were smashing bricks all around her/not long after she was on a train to Wales with 100s of other kids/ sometimes there is a God or guardian Angel 😇; God bless to all those who weren't so lucky RIP 💙
Wow thats mad
I suppose the remains of the Old Customs House are there, Liverpool's Fourth Grace ?
Yes quite a lot of it im told
Hightown is where the rubble is isn’t it? Crosby Beach is more of a sandy beach where families go and make sandcastles with the oily sand.
rubble is everywhere
If you search on here I'm sure there's a video where someone matches up some of the old stonework to old pictures of buildings. Did you know there was once an army Fort along that stretch? There's still a pill box/emplacement by the pumping station. 👍
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
Can’t believe I’ve not see the back catalogue before!!! Though I’d look at oldest videos and there loads I’ve not seen
Just wondering who the young looking dude is on this video.😂😂😂
enjoy mate there's quite a few videos on my channel now since this one
Nice video but really it's not a Blitz beach. Vast majority was from major demolition of slum/court dwellings in the 1930's.
Well its locally known as blitz beach
Where that pumping station is now, there was once Prisoner of War camp
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.
I did a fair bit of info digging when that headstone first appeared, the child is buried in a Bootle cemetery but no-one could work out how the headstone ended up at the beach
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
Very sad that headstone
Great video, you would have thousands more watching if you toned down your colourful language 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰, ps I’ve subscribed, greetings from Wales 🏴
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
Beatles played in the bombed out buildings!! All we're WAR BABIES; 1941 to 1944?
They had the babys headstone moved
Where has it gone
Liverpool's old customs house was bombed and eventually ended up there, a channel 4 documentary identified parts of the building dumped on the beach, looks like uou found some of the ornate parts.
I went last year. Ugly but fascinating and not many people know about it.
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.
You been bomb shelters mate. Ye close to them
Ignore me comment mate. Ye on it🤣 amazing place
lol no worries matey yeh good these arent they those shelters
Great vid pity about the language tho
Cheers yeh calmed it down a lot since ....sometimes i don't even know I'm doing it
Should have propped the headstone up on the pathway not good to see it where it was!
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 😁 👍
Disappointing.........Couldn't find Stan Boardman's Chippy in the footage :-)
1000s of tonnes there!! That headstone 🪦 maybe a cemetery was hit??
Beatles played in the bombed out buildings!! All we're WAR BABIES; 1941 to 1944?