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[Alan]

They were great places to play. There were two quite large ones in the fifties, both underground and disguised as grassy knolls. One at the Gamble Avenue end of Bishop Road fields near to where Rivvi Road school had an annex and the other at the far end of Rivvi Road school fields

[Griffin]

I think I posted on this before, when I first joined the forum, but there's some sort of underground bunker complex just inside the St. Mark's gate of Victoria Park. There used to be a building which gave entrance to the underground bit - that's now been demolished, and also a small weather station behind a railing, also vanished. Presumably all the bunkers are still there. There are several grassy knolls, one quite extensive. There is a website I came across once which lists all such places which still survive.

[Alan]

I can recall the weather station, in fact I think that was there until quite recently

[BigKiv]

I used to have a flat on Liverpool RD (you know where the post office sorting centre thingy is), behind my flat there was a little sort of crescent (between Liverpool RD and The Shires) with a grass area in the centre, I heard that underneath this is a huge air raid shelter built for the residents.

Can anyone prove this?

Edited by BigKiv, 26 September 2007 - 03:58 PM.

[gypsygeoff]

ah had many a happy hour in the ''shellers'' as we called them.We had some just off Rainhill road,some in our school playground,some underground ones in Rainhill village,and alot of underground ones on the now built on Whiston boys school.We always wondered why they did not have any lights in.