Second World War
BBC Peoples War
Personal recollections of evacuation.
BBC.co.uk - The People’s War
A superb collection of web links of Merseyside war time memories on the BBC website. The local web listings occupy fifteen pages alone.
World War Two Memories
Full North West listings inlcuding Memories of WWII, collected by Liverpool Libraries, which consists of transcripts of recordings, and DVD footage titled 'Liverpool 1941: the effects of German bombing raids on Liverpool and the docks'. Also included; video recordings of interviews undertaken in the library.
Museums
BBC.co.uk - The People’s War
A superb collection of web links of Merseyside war time memories on the BBC website. The local web listings occupy fifteen pages alone.
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Heritage and Education Centre
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Heritage Centre holds the largest archive of any fire and
rescue service in the UK, with over 80,000 photographs and records digitised. Visits by booked appointment.
WWII Collections - Merseyside Maritime Museum
Western Approaches Museum
Mike Kemble's Headquarters Western Approaches
Battle of the Atlantic - Merseyside Maritime Museum
History of Hooton Airfield
Fort Perch
New Brighton Palace Tunnels
The U-boat Story – U-534
The U-boat that refused to surrender, raised in 1993 and exhibited in four sections.
U-Boat website
Derek Waller's U-boat site with authoritative accounts on the fate of all U-Boats.
Resources / sites records
Historic England
The public body that looks after England’s historic environment. Nearly
400,000 of the most important historic places in England are listed. The list includes
buildings, battlefields, monuments, parks, gardens, shipwrecks and much more.
PastScape
PastScape is a quick and easy way to search over 420,000 records held in the
National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). You’ll find information
on archaeological, architectural and maritime sites. Features include: descriptions
of sites or buildings and the sources of information used to compile them; pictures
(where available); basic details of investigations into the heritage, such as surveys or
excavations and links to maps, satellite images and other websites of interest. Use
the Advanced search page to find Second World War defence sites in Liverpool, for
example. On finding search results, use streetmap.co.uk to enter map coordinates to
find a precise location.
Defence of Britain Archive (Council for British Archaeology)
The Defence of Britain Project databases were created from field and documentary
work carried out between April 1995 and December 2001. The purpose of the project
was to record the 20thc militarised landscape of the United Kingdom,
and to inform the responsible heritage agencies at both local and national level with a
view to the future preservation of surviving structures.
Sites above are useful to trace WWII sites such as gun emplacements, Decoys and Starfish sites, Dragons’ Teeth and Pillboxes
For pillboxes see the excellent www.pillboxesuk.co.uk.
Mass Observation Archive (held at the University of Sussex)
Refer to;
- FR 538, Liverpool and Manchester, December 1940/January 1941 (1941)
- FR 568, Morale in 1941. (1941)
- FR 706, Liverpool, May 1941. (1941)
- FR 727, Liverpool Seamen, June 1941 (1941)
Urban exploration
28 Days Later
Derelict Places-documenting decay
North West Exploration Forum
Hidden Wirral
Chinese and Lascar Seamen and their Families
Chinese Community
Liverpool and its Chinese Seamen
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