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During the Blitz and war years, I was 12/13 years of age. I always remember and was rather bemused at the fact that one of the biggest cinemas, a former theatre was situated at the top of Brunswick Road, the beginning of West Derby Road, it could hold, when full 4100 people. Someone had the bright idea of painting it military camouflage colours, which mad it look like a military building, and if I was a German reconnaissance pilot, I鈥檇 think; we鈥檒l give this a good hitting tonight. A picture would be flashed upon the screen in the cinema, and you鈥檇 be told that the sirens had gone and those wishing to leave could do so. Many would go into the basement shelter, others would stay there. Well I often think 4100 people could have died; there could have been a catastrophe.

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