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This story appears courtesy of and with thanks to The Liverpool Diocesan Care and Repair Association and James Taylor

John Goff looks back on the bombing in Liverpool:
I was here during the bombing, the air raids were on and I remember the bad ones, we did silly things, I can remember the flares dropping and we were running out into the street, trying to put them out. Air raid shelters were built onto Dorset road and others onto the back of the houses. Luckily we didn’t get any bombs on Dorset road even though there were some very close ones.
Low Hill and those places caught it, I think they were after the ports mainly, there were a lot along the Dock road. The African Oil Mills were on the Dock road so we saw some of the damage along there. I remember the overhead railway that went the full length of the river and they hit that a couple of times and a couple of ships were sunk in the dock, you just accepted it.
The main trouble was fires, houses and the buildings and shops were all set on fire, the firemen had a terrifying job of course, a lot of them were volunteers, they all were really, you had to do what you could.
Moral was high but, some people of the people were terrified. A lot of people were evacuated from Liverpool to North Wales, out of the way. The majority stayed here and just accepted it.

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