ADLINGTON AND LACE STREET BOMBING
On 13th March 1941 a cluch of bombs hit Adlington street and Lace street causing damage to houses and an air raid shelter.The outcome was total devastation. I have found details for 65 people who were killed in the bombing, the total figure will be much higher. We know that an Air Raid shelter stood in Adlington Street and that a block of tenement flats were hit on Lace Street.
Terry Cooke's book ' Little Italy ' mentions the bombing.
' mines fell on Lace st and Adlington st areas destroying numerous houses and burying residents under mounds of debris. As rescue workers tore at the debris with their bare hands, enemy planes swooped low, spraying them with machine gun fire.'
I had been looking for more information about this bombing raid without success, then I found something close to home. One of my relatives was involved in the bombing, although only a small baby at the time she still remembers what her Mother Sarah ( Also known as Sally ) told her about the bombing. It gives a good insight into what was happening that night.
Maureen Kilbride, back then Maureen Flaherty recalls the story..............
' The date is the 12th of March 1941 and Hitler decides yet again it would be a good idea to bomb those cocky Scousers. Lace Street became a target, and whether by accident or design sadly 125 people died that night. The tenements where we lived took a hit and one end of the street was almost totally demolished. Our Frank and Veronica both got buried under the rubble. Ron was there for a few days until she was dug out, and I was thrown out of the window about five or six weeks old, and was caught by a priest from Holy Cross.
Picture the scene. People dying, houses ablaze and in our case building ready to collapse. The only way out is through the window either by climbing down the building or jumping down because the stairs are gone. The whole family are almost out with just what was on our backs, but here is where the black humour comes in. My dad decided he had to turn back for the canary the family pet and a quantity of sausage my mam had managed to get. My mam is almost hysterical and is shouting for him to get out but my dad's philosophy is that you can't leave a defenceless bird to die in a burning building, and he wasn't leaving the sausage which was for the dinner that night because everything was rationed. Can't argue with that can you?
My mother Sarah was very good friends with two of the families who died that night, Rooney Byrde and Charlotte Blackburn. We lived at 1a Lace Street which was the other end of the landing to where Charlotte lived, Charlotte's husband Michael had been killed just before Christmas 1940 while serving in the Merchant Navy aboard The S.S. Napier Star . Rooney and her 8 children would die in the bombing.
My sister Mary who was only just coming up to ten years old used to sleep in Charlotte Blackburn's flat every night to keep her and her children company and help out. On that particular night she told my mam that she did not want to sleep in Charlotte's that night and could not be coaxed to go no matter what was said to her. In the end Charlotte told my mam to leave her if she was afraid and she went home. They lived at the other end of the landing to where we lived, and when the bombing started and Lace Street was hit one end of the street took the blast worse than the other, and both families were killed outright. If Mary had have stayed with Charlotte that night we would never have seen her again. My own brother and sister were buried under the rubble and my cousins from my mothers side of the family were also buried under the rubble of part of Holy Cross Church.
From all accounts Lace Street was devastated that night. Everyone who was able to were helping the priests of Holy Cross to dig out some of the injured and dying. There is a picture of Lace Street bombed in the archives which is just rubble with a couple of people in it. After the bombing of Lace Street we got a house in Greenside in Islington near to where the old school for the blind used to be. It was an old fashioned type of terraced property but before we had chance to move in it was also bombed, so for a substantial amount of time we were homeless and shunted about from place to place. We lived for a time in Nyland Road in Huyton with a colleague of my dad from the docks, but he was not a nice man and firmly kept us in our place in one bedroom. They used to get paid by the Government to take in people made homeless by the bombings, but we had the worst end of the deal. My dad was then told by a friend about a house in Cromarty Road Old Swan which was empty and my mam started her fight to be rehoused. It wasn't easy, but she managed to secure the house for us to rent from the Corporation and the rest is history.
There are not that many of that generation left and my generation is probably the last who remember anything at all about the war, but in a way that's a good thing. I wouldn't like my grandchildren to ever experience anything like that, but we should never forget those who died to let live the way we do.'
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After hearing the story from Maureen I looked for Rooney Bird and Charlotte Blackburn but could find no mention of them in the war deaths. I asked on Rootschat and the Merseyside Genealogy and history forum for help. It turned out that Maureen's Mother had been remembering her two good friends by their maiden names.
Charlotte Blackburn had married Michael Gerrard in 1931. Twins Arnold and Michael were born in early 1932 but both died soon after birth. In 1934 another son was born and he too was named Michael after his father. Then in 1936 Terence was born. Michael senior served as a Fireman with The Merchant Navy and he was aboard the Napier Star when it sailed from Liverpool on 15th December 1940 bound for New Zealand. By the afternoon of the 18th December Napier was some 300 miles South of Iceland braving the rough winter seas. Just before 4pm she was hit by a torpedoe on her port side, evacuation was ordered and as this was taking place she was hit again, sinking shortly afterwards. Only 14 people survived the sinking, sadly Michael Gerrard died that night aged 27. Charlotte was now a widow.
CWGC details for Michael http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2787569
Rooney Byrde was proving more difficult to find and it became clear that Rooney must have been some kind of nickname. Talking to Maureen again she told me that Rooney had died in the bombing with all of her 8 children, with this I was able to search the war deaths and found a Annie Neary who died that night in Adlington Street alongside her 8 children. Marriage records showed that John Thomas Neary had married Annie Bird in Liverpool in 1922. So Rooney was her nickname and she was not living in the tenement block in Lace street but in a house directly behind them on Adlington street. Rooney had a total of 9 children, along with the 8 who died in the bombing there was also John Neary born in 1928 who appears to have survived the tragedy.Another family named Neary were relatives and were living a few doors away in Adlington street and are listed in the deaths.
At the bottom of this page you will find details of people who died in the bombing, Rooney and Charlotte are listed under their married names of Neary and Gerrard. They are also remembered on the CWGC website. Without Maureen passing on the story that her mother had told her about her two great friends then we would never have known them by maiden or nicknames.
Maureen sums it all up...' You know even though I never knew either Rooney or Charlotte I've always known about them. My mam often talked about them and I suppose in a way it was her way of keeping their memory alive. I believe she thought it was her duty.'
For Rooney, Charlotte, and their children. Always Remembered
A photo of children in Lace Street a few years before WW2. Spot the girl in the centre holding the child wearing a hat and coat. The girl and the baby were two of Rooney Bird's children. Not the clearest photo, but a priceless look back in time.
Photo by courtesy of Maureen Kilbride
Photo by courtesy of Maureen Kilbride
Mark Abbott has researched the story of Harold Frederick Claydon, A Liverpool Police Officer who came to help the victims of the bombing. We thank Mark for bringing this story to our attention.
My contribution to this website is the George Medal group awarded to 36”A” Sergeant Harold Frederick Claydon, Liverpool City Police. He was awarded the George Medal for rescuing several people from bombed buildings in Liverpool on the night 12/13th March 1941. The George Medal was gazetted on 6th June 1941.
"Harold Frederick Claydon, Police Sergeant, Liverpool Police Service. Bombs demolished houses and several people were trapped. Sergeant Claydon tunnelled twenty feet through debris and rescued two women. He then shored up the tunnel with wood and masonry and after strenuous efforts, succeeded in releasing another woman who was buried beneath the rubble. The sergeant, owing to his exertions in a gas laden atmosphere, was overcome and had to rest. he recovered and, though warned of the danger from gas, returned to the tunnel and continued his rescue work.
A large piece of wood was wedged blocking the passage. Claydon obtained a saw, crawled into the space again, and, lying on his stomach, sawed through the block of wood and was able to release two casualties. Removing more debris he freed a child and a man and cleared a space so that others could effect the rescue of those remaining. Claydon showed exceptional courage in extremely dangerous circumstances and by his efforts ten people were released."
My contribution to this website is the George Medal group awarded to 36”A” Sergeant Harold Frederick Claydon, Liverpool City Police. He was awarded the George Medal for rescuing several people from bombed buildings in Liverpool on the night 12/13th March 1941. The George Medal was gazetted on 6th June 1941.
"Harold Frederick Claydon, Police Sergeant, Liverpool Police Service. Bombs demolished houses and several people were trapped. Sergeant Claydon tunnelled twenty feet through debris and rescued two women. He then shored up the tunnel with wood and masonry and after strenuous efforts, succeeded in releasing another woman who was buried beneath the rubble. The sergeant, owing to his exertions in a gas laden atmosphere, was overcome and had to rest. he recovered and, though warned of the danger from gas, returned to the tunnel and continued his rescue work.
A large piece of wood was wedged blocking the passage. Claydon obtained a saw, crawled into the space again, and, lying on his stomach, sawed through the block of wood and was able to release two casualties. Removing more debris he freed a child and a man and cleared a space so that others could effect the rescue of those remaining. Claydon showed exceptional courage in extremely dangerous circumstances and by his efforts ten people were released."
Harold Claydon
A report of the rescue appeared in the Liverpool Daily Post:
Liverpool Sergt's G. M
"On the night of Wednesday, March 12 last, when he rescued 6 persons from a mass of debris. Two Corporation tenements had collapsed during an air raid and he was told that the occupants had been trapped. Relying mostly upon his hands, and using a torch, he commenced to tunnel at great risk to his own life, through the debris.
After working for some time he reached two young women Nellie Walsh and Lissie Dow - whom he brought to safety. Making the hole through the debris more secure by means of pieces of masonry and wood, he proceeded with his tunnelling reached Mrs. Fagerass, a 70 year old woman, who was lying semi-conscious with her left arm fastened in the debris and a piece of wood across her chest. He succeeded in releasing her and despite her weight of 16st dragged her to safety. To do so he had to cut away part of her clothing.
By this time Sergt Claydon was suffering from the effects of escaping gas, but after being given a drink of water he continued to tunnel through the debris.
Mrs. Fagerass on recovering consciousness said 14 other people had been sheltering in a small place. After next rescuing a man who had lost consciousness, he returned to the tunnel and heard a child's voice say "I am here, mister; can you see me?"
He found the child lying with a piece of timber across his body. Sergeant Claydon had to use a saw to cut through wood to rescue this child and afterwards a man who had been trapped in a chair, which he had to break before he could move him.
Sergeant Claydon after working for two hours in this tunnel collapsed with the effects of gas and had to be removed to hospital.”
According to “Air Raids on Liverpool” (a brief list of Air Raids on the city) for 12/13th March 1941.
”No incidents during first alert. During the night the City was heavily attacked, and 125 fires were dealt with by the Fire Brigade and A.F.S. Serious fires at head Post Office, Victoria Street, South John Street Telephone Exchange, Municipal Annexe, Dale Street and numerous other buildings in the centre of Town. Assistance was rendered by outside fire brigades.”
From this report, I have was able to establish (using the CWGC website) the exact location of the incident, 8 Adlington Street, Liverpool, and the names of two of those rescued. I have been managed to locate the family of Lizzie Dow and Mrs Fagerass.
Liverpool Sergt's G. M
"On the night of Wednesday, March 12 last, when he rescued 6 persons from a mass of debris. Two Corporation tenements had collapsed during an air raid and he was told that the occupants had been trapped. Relying mostly upon his hands, and using a torch, he commenced to tunnel at great risk to his own life, through the debris.
After working for some time he reached two young women Nellie Walsh and Lissie Dow - whom he brought to safety. Making the hole through the debris more secure by means of pieces of masonry and wood, he proceeded with his tunnelling reached Mrs. Fagerass, a 70 year old woman, who was lying semi-conscious with her left arm fastened in the debris and a piece of wood across her chest. He succeeded in releasing her and despite her weight of 16st dragged her to safety. To do so he had to cut away part of her clothing.
By this time Sergt Claydon was suffering from the effects of escaping gas, but after being given a drink of water he continued to tunnel through the debris.
Mrs. Fagerass on recovering consciousness said 14 other people had been sheltering in a small place. After next rescuing a man who had lost consciousness, he returned to the tunnel and heard a child's voice say "I am here, mister; can you see me?"
He found the child lying with a piece of timber across his body. Sergeant Claydon had to use a saw to cut through wood to rescue this child and afterwards a man who had been trapped in a chair, which he had to break before he could move him.
Sergeant Claydon after working for two hours in this tunnel collapsed with the effects of gas and had to be removed to hospital.”
According to “Air Raids on Liverpool” (a brief list of Air Raids on the city) for 12/13th March 1941.
”No incidents during first alert. During the night the City was heavily attacked, and 125 fires were dealt with by the Fire Brigade and A.F.S. Serious fires at head Post Office, Victoria Street, South John Street Telephone Exchange, Municipal Annexe, Dale Street and numerous other buildings in the centre of Town. Assistance was rendered by outside fire brigades.”
From this report, I have was able to establish (using the CWGC website) the exact location of the incident, 8 Adlington Street, Liverpool, and the names of two of those rescued. I have been managed to locate the family of Lizzie Dow and Mrs Fagerass.
Hannah Maud Mary Fagerass (Nee Wignall) Born 11/06/1870 Died 12/01/1955 (seated)
Joan Manley (Nee Fagerass) Born 10/12/1929
The photograph was taken on 24th July 1954
Joan Manley (Nee Fagerass) Born 10/12/1929
The photograph was taken on 24th July 1954
Copy of Satement by Hannah Maud Mary Fagerass, 70 years, 6 Adlington Street, dated 18th March 1941
“I was sitting in No 8 Adlington Street, when the Air Raid was over Liverpool, on the night of Wednesday, the 12, and the morning of Thursday the 13th March, 1941. We were all sitting in the kitchen:- Mrs Walsh, Nellie Walsh, James Walsh, Margaret Griffen and her baby, twelve months old, Mr and Mrs Dow and Lizzie Dow 17 years, Mrs Thomas Walsh, Nancy Walsh, Tommy Walsh, Mrs Gallagher and her son, also Margaret Gallagher.
I heard a loud explosion, it seemed right outside the door, and I was struck on the side of the face.. The roof cane in and we were all knocked into the fireplace, and we all thought there was no getting out. We all started to shout. I heard a man’s voice and my son’s and they started to clear away the debris. I could hear them working on the outside. When they got through they got out Nellie Walsh and Lizzie Dow, and I was able to see the man who rescued them, and my son (James Fagerass). I had a piece of wood on my chest and my right arm was jammed but this chap kept pulling at the wood on my chest until he got it away, and I was able to breath a lot better. Then he started to get my arm free and they had to use a knife to cut some of my clothes. I heard the Sergeant shout for a knife to cut my clothes away and then I was free. I was pulled out by the Sergeant and my son helped him. My son took me away in the ambulance to Mill Road Hospital. The man who got me out was grand, I think he is a Sergeant in the Police, and I don’t know how he stuck it, as the gas was escaping, and there was a fire in the grate.”
(Sgd) Hannah M.M. Fagerass
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“I was sitting in No 8 Adlington Street, when the Air Raid was over Liverpool, on the night of Wednesday, the 12, and the morning of Thursday the 13th March, 1941. We were all sitting in the kitchen:- Mrs Walsh, Nellie Walsh, James Walsh, Margaret Griffen and her baby, twelve months old, Mr and Mrs Dow and Lizzie Dow 17 years, Mrs Thomas Walsh, Nancy Walsh, Tommy Walsh, Mrs Gallagher and her son, also Margaret Gallagher.
I heard a loud explosion, it seemed right outside the door, and I was struck on the side of the face.. The roof cane in and we were all knocked into the fireplace, and we all thought there was no getting out. We all started to shout. I heard a man’s voice and my son’s and they started to clear away the debris. I could hear them working on the outside. When they got through they got out Nellie Walsh and Lizzie Dow, and I was able to see the man who rescued them, and my son (James Fagerass). I had a piece of wood on my chest and my right arm was jammed but this chap kept pulling at the wood on my chest until he got it away, and I was able to breath a lot better. Then he started to get my arm free and they had to use a knife to cut some of my clothes. I heard the Sergeant shout for a knife to cut my clothes away and then I was free. I was pulled out by the Sergeant and my son helped him. My son took me away in the ambulance to Mill Road Hospital. The man who got me out was grand, I think he is a Sergeant in the Police, and I don’t know how he stuck it, as the gas was escaping, and there was a fire in the grate.”
(Sgd) Hannah M.M. Fagerass
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Copy of Report by Chief Constable. Obtained from and Copyright of The National Archives. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
At 20.29 hours on Wednesday, 12.3.41, an air raid “Alert” was sounded in Liverpool and a very heavy air raid developed which continued until 03.00 hours Thursday, 13.3.41. At this time Sergeant 36 “A” Claydon was on plain clothes duty with his section at Hatton Gardens Police Station.
Incendiary bombs were dropped on and in the vicinity of the Police Offices and the Plain Clothes Section directed by the Sergeant controlled the bombs and dealt with the resultant fires in the Police building and on the roof of adjoining premises.
At 02.00hours on Thursday, 13.3.41., during the same attack a parachute mine fell in the residential neighbourhood of Adlington Street and Lace Street and exploded on a row of two storeyed tenements, demolishing 26 houses and seriously damaging a further 30 houses, and causing wide spread devastation. To date the casualties number 77 fatal, 44 seriously injured and 22 slightly injured. Rescue work is stioll being carried out.
Sergeant Claydon was sent to the incident and he organised the Police and civilians into parties and under his direction search and rescue work was commenced. He went to the site of No. 8 Adlington Street, which had received the full force of the explosion, and being told a woman was under the debris, finding it impossible to move part of the collapsed floor owing to the weight of iron work and large concrete slabs blown down from the tenement landing, he decided to tunnel through the debris. After 20 minutes work a narrow tunnel was made through the debris and kitchen wall, but entrance at this point was blocked by the body of a man wedged at the end of the passage. The opening had to be enlarged and the Sergeant took the chance of doing so, well knowing the risk. After a time a hole sufficiently large was made and the Sergeant was able to lean down and rescue two women, Nellie Walsh and Lizzie Dow, both in a distressed condition. Sergeant Claydon then secured his tunnel by fixing pieces of masonry and wood and made another entry, but was impeded by the body of another man. This body was drawn out by a rope fastened by the Sergeant assisted by James Fagerass and Con. 245 “A” McAdam. By the light of a torch the Sergeant was then able to see Mrs Fagerass, 70 years, of 6, Adlington Street, lying semi-conscious, her right arm trapped in debris and a piece of wood across her chest. After strenuous efforts he succeeded in releasing her and despite her weight of 16 stone dragged her through the hole and in the process had to cut her clothing away in parts with a knife. At this stage, the Sergeant, owing to the result of his exertions in a gas laden and stifling atmosphere caused by a fractured gas maim, was overcome, but after getting a drink of water, recovered sufficiently to return to the tunnel though warned of the danger from gas.
He found that the people were trapped in a space where the explosion had forced the dividing wall with a piano, up to within 3 feet of the fire place in which a small fire was burning. On either side of the fireplace appeared the heads of several upright bodies held in rubble and dirt up to the neck. Lying over the far end of the piano was an unconscious woman. It is stated by Mrs Fagerass that, in this space of six feet by three feet and five feet high above the rubble, including herself and a baby of 12 months were fourteen persons who usually came to shelter during air raids.
A large piece of wood was wedged between the piano and the fireplace blocking the passage of these people to the hole which had been made. The Sergeant, obtaining a saw, crawled into the space again, lying on his stomach sawed through the block of wood and was able to pull the body which was lying on the piano into the passage, and then brought out another woman apparently dead. Re-entering and removing some more debris he heard a child’s voice cry “I’m here mister, can you see me?”, and found a child lying under broken timber with its feet protruding from the rubble near the fire. Realising that he was becoming exhausted the Sergeant devoted his flagging energies by removing debris so that others could effect a comparatively easy rescue of those remaining alive inside. This done, he was able to release the child and pass it out to safety, as well as freeing a man trapped on a chair which he had to break before he could move him. This man has since died.
The witness Egerton then gave the Sergeant a drink and saw him collapse. Assisted by Con. 245 “A” McAdam he pulled him out of the hole and the Sergeant was removed to Mill Road Hospital unconscious from the effect of gas, were he remained until 14.3.41, resuming duty on 17.3.41, but he still shows signs of his ordeal and is not quite fit.
Of the fourteen persons named by Mrs Fagerass, ten were rescued. The recovery of other depends on the rescue parties.
These rescues were effected in darkness aided only by the light of two hand torches. Enemy planes were overhead. No tools apart from the saw were available, and all the debris was removed by hand. Accumulation of gas in the hole and the presence of a fire in the grate might have caused an explosion.
Tribute is paid to others who helped in this rescue, but the consensus of opinion of these and Mrs Fagerass is that the credit is entirely due to Sergeant Claydon who worked in the hole for nearly two hours.
He had no regard for his personal safety where the lives of others were at stake, and his exceptional courage, in my opinion, merits the highest possible award.
(Sgd) T Winstanley
Chief Constable.
Submitted by Mark Abbott.
Photos from the Liverpool Echo's Blitz Publication showing Lace Street looking towards Fontenoy Gardens. The devastation from the impact is clear for all to see.
The photo in full below
Photographs with courtesy and copywrite of Liverpool Daily Post and Echo
Photographs with courtesy and copywrite of Liverpool Daily Post and Echo
MARY AINSBURY
died 13/03/1941, aged 68.
of 17 Adlington Street. Widow of Thomas Ainsbury. Died at Adlington Street.
GERALD BRENNAN
died 13/03/1941, aged 32.
of 9 St. Stephen's Place. Son of Bridget Brennan, of 70 Bispham Street, and of Thomas Brennan; husband of Mary Brennan. Died at Adlington Street.
AGNES DAVITT
died 13/03/1941, aged 35.
of 9 Adlington Street. Wife of James Davitt. Died at Adlington Street Shelter.
JAMES ANTHONY DAVITT
died 13/03/1941, aged 9 Months.
of 9 Adlington Street. Son of James Davitt, and of Agnes Davitt. Died at Adlington Street Shelter.
MARY DAVITT
died 13/03/1941, aged 45.
Daughter of Thomas and Bridget Brennan, of 70 Bispham Street; wife of Anthony Davitt, of 4 Bispham Street. Died at Adlington Street.
JOSEPH DORAN
died 13/03/1941, aged 44.
of 11 Lace Street. Husband of Rose Ann Doran. Died at 11 Lace Street.
EMILY DOUGHERTY
died 13/03/1941, aged 24.
of 10B Adlington Street. Died at Lace Street.
JOHN DOUGHERTY
died 13/03/1941, aged 57.
of 10B Adlington Street. Died at Lace Street.
ELIZABETH DUNN
died 13/03/1941, aged 3.
of 94D Thurlow House, Christian Street. Daughter of John Joseph and Mary Ellen Dunn. Died at Adlington Street Shelter.
JOHN DUNN
died 13/03/1941, aged 12.
of 92D Thurlow House, Christian Street. Son of C. Dunn. Died at Adlington Street Shelter.
JOHN JOSEPH DUNN
died 13/03/1941, aged 29.
Seaman, Merchant Navy; of 94D Thurlow House, Christian Street. Son of John James and Mary Anne Dunn, of 22D Adlington Street; husband of Mary Ellen Dunn. Died at Adlington Street Shelter.
MARY DUNN
died 13/03/1941, aged 6.
of 94D Thurlow House, Christian Street. Daughter of John Joseph and Mary Ellen Dunn. Died at Adlington Street Shelter.
MARY ELLEN DUNN
died 13/03/1941, aged 26.
of 94D Thurlow House, Christian Street. Wife of John Joseph Dunn. Died at Adlington Street Shelter.
ELLEN DYER
died 13/03/1941, aged 64.
Wife of Patrick Dyer. Died at 12 Adlington Street.
PATRICK DYER
died 13/03/1941, aged 62.
Husband of Ellen Dyer. Died at 12 Adlington Street.
MAUREEN FEALEY
died 13/03/1941, aged 3.
of 7 Lace Street. Daughter of Joseph Fealey. Died at Lace Street.
MATTHEW FITZSIMMONS
died 13/03/1941, aged 18.
of 17B Lace Street. Son of Matthew and Margaret Fitzsimmons. Died at Adlington Street.
MARY FLYNN
died 13/03/1941, aged 38.
of 18 Adlington Street. Daughter of John and Mary McManus; widow of John Flynn. Died at 18 Adlington Street.
CHARLOTTE GERRARD
died 13/03/1941, aged 27.
of 8B Lace Street. Widow of Michael Gerrard. Died at 8B Lace Street.
TERRENCE GERRARD
died 13/03/1941, aged 4.
of 8B Lace Street. Son of Michael Gerrard, and of Charlotte Gerrard. Died at 85 Lace Street.
ALICE GINLEY
died 13/03/1941, aged 58.
of 12B Adlington Street, Fontenoy Street. Daughter of the late James and Margaret Winstanley, of Myrtle View, Christian Street; wife of Peter Ginley. Died at 12B Adlington Street.
JOSEPH GINLEY
died 13/03/1941, aged 23.
of 12B Adlington Street, Fontenoy Street. Son of Peter and Alice Ginley. Died at 12B Adlington Street.
PATRICK GINLEY
died 13/03/1941, aged 30.
of 12B Adlington Street, Fontenoy Street. Son of Peter and Alice Ginley. Died at 12B Adlington Street.
PETER GINLEY
died 13/03/1941, aged 62.
of 12B Adlington Street, Fontenoy Street. Son of Thomas and Margaret Ginley, of Dryden Street, Scotland Road; husband of Alice Ginley. Died at 12B Adlington Street.
BRIDGET GRAY
died 22/04/1941, aged 13 Months.
of 8A Adlington Street. Daughter of Bridget Gray, and of Thomas Gray. Injured 13 March 1941, at 8A Adlington Street; died at Mill Road Infirmary.
CHRISTINA GRAY
died 22/04/1941, aged 8.
of 8A Adlington Street. Daughter of Bridget Gray, and of Thomas Gray. Died at 8A Adlington Street
THOMAS GRAY
died 13/03/1941, aged 40.
of 8A Adlington Street. Husband of Bridget Gray. Died at 8A Adlington Street.
MARGARET GRIFFIN
died 13/03/1941, aged 23.
of 8 Adlington Street. Wife of Thomas Griffin. Died at 8 Adlington Street.
MARGARET MARY GRIFFIN
died 13/03/1941, aged 11 Months.
of 8 Adlington Street. Daughter of Thomas and Margaret Griffin. Died at 8 Adlington Street.
THOMAS GRIFFIN
died 13/03/1941, aged 24.
of 8 Adlington Street. Son of Christina Griffin; husband of Margaret Griffin. Died at 8 Adlington Street.
WILLIAM GRIMLEY
died 13/03/1941, aged 46.
of 14 Adlington Street. Died at Lace Street.
ELLEN HANLON
died 13/03/1941, aged 3.
of 9A Lace Street. Daughter of Patrick and Beatrice Hanlon. Injured at 9A Lace Street; died same day at Royal Infirmary.
MARGARET HANLON
died 13/03/1941, aged 22.
of 16A Adlington Street. Wife of Pte. Michael Hanlon, Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps. Died at Lace Street.
ELLEN HART
died 13/03/1941, aged 23.
of 10B Adlington Street. Wife of Pte. James Hart, The King's Regiment (Liverpool). Died at 10B Adlington Street.
VERONICA MARY HART
died 13/03/1941, aged 10 Months.
of 10B Adlington Street. Daughter of Pte. James Hart, The King's Regiment (Liverpool), and of Ellen Hart. Died at 10B Adlington Street.
JOHN JOSEPH HOWARD
died 13/03/1941, aged 36.
of 92D Thurlow House, Christian Street. Son of the late Joseph and Teresa Howard; husband of Louisa Howard. Died at Adlington Street Shelter.
JOSEPH HOWARD
died 13/03/1941, aged 14 Months.
of 94D Thurlow House, Christian Street. Son of John Joseph and Louisa Howard. Died at Adlington Street Shelter.
LOUISA HOWARD
died 13/03/1941, aged 32.
of 94D Thurlow House, Christian Street. Wife of John Joseph Howard. Died at Adlington Street Shelter.
MARY HOWARD
died 13/03/1941, aged 3.
of 94D Thurlow House, Christian Street. Daughter of John Joseph and Louisa Howard. Died at Adlington Street Shelter.
THOMAS HOWARD
died 13/03/1941, aged 4.
of 94D Thurlow House, Christian Street. Son of John Joseph and Louisa Howard. Died at Adlington Street Shelter.
DENIS STEPHEN LARKIN
died 13/03/1941, aged 26.
of 5 Adlington Street. Son of Denis Stephen Larkin and Mary Jane Larkin; husband of Eileen Christina Larkin. Died at 5 Adlington Street.
ELLEEN CHRISTINA LARKIN
died 13/03/1941, aged 26.
of 5 Adlington Street. Wife of Denis Stephen Larkin. Died at 5 Adlington Street.
WINIFRED MATTHEWS
died 13/03/1941, aged 60.
of 31 Adlington Street. Widow of Francis Matthews. Died at Adlington Street.
MARY McCOY
died 13/03/1941, aged 46.
of 10 Adlington Street. Daughter of Edward and Bridget McCoy. Died at 10 Adlington Street.
EMMA JANE McIVER
died 13/03/1941, aged 48.
Wife of John C. McIver, of 32 Earle Street. Died at Adlington Street.
ANDREW NEARY
died 13/03/1941, aged 3.
of 16 Adlington Street. Son of John Thomas Neary, and of Annie Neary. Died at Adlington Street.
ANNIE NEARY
died 13/03/1941, aged 38.
of 16 Adlington Street. Wife of John Thomas Neary. Died at Adlington Street.
CHARLES NEARY
died 13/03/1941, aged 11.
of 16 Adlington Street. Son of John Thomas Neary, and of Annie Neary. Died at Adlington Street.
GERARD NEARY
died 13/03/1941, aged 9.
of 16 Adlington Street. Son of John Thomas Neary, and of Annie Neary. Died at Adlington Street.
JAMES NEARY
died 13/03/1941, aged 18.
of 16 Adlington Street. Son of John Thomas Neary, and of Annie Neary. Died at Adlington Street.
KATHLEEN NEARY
died 13/03/1941, aged 14 Months.
of 16 Adlington Street. Daughter of John Thomas Neary, and of Annie Neary. Died at Adlington Street.
JOSEPH NEARY
died 13/03/1941, aged 15.
of 16 Adlington Street. Son of John Thomas Neary, and of Annie Neary. Died at Adlington Street.
MARY NEARY
died 13/03/1941, aged 5.
of 16 Adlington Street. Daughter of John Thomas Neary, and of Annie Neary. Died at Adlington Street.
TERESA NEARY
died 13/03/1941, aged 7.
of 16 Adlington Street. Daughter of John Thomas Neary, and of Annie Neary. Died at Adlington Street.
LUKE NEARY
died 13/03/1941, aged 11.
of 24 Adlington Street. Son of Luke Neary, and of Mary Jane Neary. Died at 24 Adlington Street.
MARY CATHERINE NEARY
died 13/03/1941, aged 13.
of 24 Adlington Street. Daughter of Luke Neary, and of Mary Jane Neary. Died at 24 Adlington Street.
MARY JANE NEARY
died 13/03/1941, aged 35.
of 24 Adlington Street. Wife of Luke Neary. Died at 24 Adlington Street.
HENRIETTA SMITH
died 13/03/1941, aged 68.
of 14A Adlington Street. Wife of Joseph Miller Smith. Died at 14A Adlington Street.
JOSEPH MILLER SMITH
died 13/03/1941, aged 72.
of 14A Adlington Street. Husband of Henrietta Smith. Died at 14A Adlington Street.
MARY ELLEN SUTTON
died 13/03/1941, aged 62.
of 6A Adlington Street. Wife of Thomas Sutton. Died at Adlington Street.
JAMES WALSH
died 13/03/1941, aged 18.
Seaman, Merchant Navy; of 8 Adlington Street. Died at Mill Road Infirmary.
JULIA WALSH
died 13/03/1941, aged 53.
of 8 Adlington Street. Widow of Thomas Walsh. Died at Lace Street.
CHRISTINA WALSH
died 13/03/1941, aged 26.
of 92 Bispham Street. Daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. O'Hare; wife of Thomas Walsh, R.N. Died at Adlington Street.
THOMAS WALSH
died 13/03/1941, aged 6.
of 92 Bispham Street. Son of Thomas Walsh, R.N., and of Christina Walsh. Died at Adlington Street.
THOMAS WRIGHT
died 13/03/1941, aged 52.
of 18 Adlington Street. Son of William and Ann Wright, of 90 Bispham Street. Died at Adlington Street.
Thomas is listed as dying 12th March. I have added him here as I believe he would have died in the same bombing as the other victims and probably died on the 13th March.
ALSO FOR THE UNKNOWN, MAY THEY REST IN PEACE
