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Whilst we were away from our parents during the Liverpool bombings, he arranged for us to be educated together in the Abercrave Village Hall, Swansea Valley, and encouraged us to write in his magazine ‘Outpost’, which he sent back to Liverpool every month.
He used to take the boys to Youth Hostels for rambling weekends which gave the Townies a greater appreciation of the delights of the countryside. In later years these boys continued youth hostelling, with their own families on country weekend walks.
Some of his pupils stayed onto work in the Swansea Valley, and kept in touch with Crosby Road School long after the war was over:- even today!
Mr Tyrer gave us the feeling of belonging, which many of us never lost. He wrote many books about the Crosby area and will never be forgotten in Waterloo; L22.
Outpost ‘41, is now renamed St John’s History Group, as most of the younger evacuees were from St John’s infants school and ‘moved up’ to Mr Tyrer’s and Miss William’s classrooms in the Abercrave Village Hall after a short time in the Welsh primary schools.
We have a Reminiscence Box in the Local History Department at Crosby Central Library, Crosby Rd North which is added to every year. This year: 2005, the box will be brought out on Tuesday 12th July at 2pm for a nostalgic afternoon.

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