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Re: 53 Vulcan Street, Birkenhead
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 03 August 08 13:05 BST (UK) »
Hi Kath
  My mother and members of her family lived either in Tollemache road or in the surrounding streets prior to the bombings in the second world war. One evening (sorry - I don't have a date, although its written somewhere) the legendary lord hawhaw (german propaganda) announced that the streets of birkenhead would flow with blood in his description it was around the St James area he was referring to. That night my father, who was dating my mother was walking her home after having to be in the airraid shelter. My mother remembers the devastation to this day. She even remembers a young lady who had been working in the munitions factory and had returned home to sleep. At the time there had been a number of false alarms leading up to the bombing so instead of going to the airraid shelter she chose to stay in bed. They found her bed some distance away hanging from some sort of pole or street light and the rest of her spread around about. The whole area was devastated and not rebuilt exactly as it had been before - hence the postwar maps show a discrepency in some of the streets. It would not surprise me if the building you are looking for was one of those bombed during this time. A number of houses were not rebuilt. Families were eventually rehoused in new housing in the late 40's early 50's.  I hope this helps. My mother is still alive but now lives in Tasmania.
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Re: 53 Vulcan Street, Birkenhead
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 03 August 08 13:39 BST (UK) »
Hi, Sue, thanks for this information.  My mother used to speak of the bombings and I remember her telling me about a house in the same area where the whole house was lost.  All that was left was the staircase with a table below on which stood a cut glass bowl.  The bowl survived but the occupants all died.
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Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Baker/Cheshire,Crewe/Somerset
Davies/Calvert/Cheshire, Birkenhead/Yorkshire, Bowes
Fitzsimmons/Cheshire, Birkenhead/Lancashire, Liverpool/Ireland
Lewis/Cheshire,Spurstow, Bunbury, Little Budworth, Helsby
Mackay/Mckay Caithness
Anderson/, Caithness
Dunnet, Caithness
Mowat/ Caithness
Gunn/ Caithness
Smith/Caithness, Dunnet, Thurso, Castletown
Rosie/Caithness, Thurso
Sadlier Forster/Liverpool
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