Talk:Liverpool Blitz

message: This page mentions that there were 4,000 deaths during the Liverpool Blitz, while the Liverpool page mentions 2,500.  Which would be the correct number?
Sobolak 20:11, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: (First comments)

message: Why does someone keep deleting the Merseyside reference?
You might as well delete any reference to 'Dickie Sam's' and 'Scousers' in reference to Liverpudlians. Eh?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.234.248.31 (talk) 16:37, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have just removed Merseyside from the article today as it did not exist during WW2. Merseyside was created in the 1970s, during WW2 Liverpool was part of Lancashire.--EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 14:40, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You might as well argue "Merseyside" doesn't exist today - the metropolitan council was abolished in 1986. Furthermore, "Merseyside", as a geographical term, most certainly did exist during WW2. It was in fact a commonplace description. Numerous pre-1974 books, including Churchill's "The Second World War" (1948) refer to Merseyside freely. In 1945 a government study entitled "Merseyside plan, 1944" was published by "Merseyside Advisory Joint Planning Committee, Great Britain. Ministry of Housing and Local Government, H. M. Stationery Office" What exactly are you trying to prove by the deletion of the category? RodCrosby (talk) 16:17, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven’t deleted any categories from this article or from the wiki. What i have done is remove an erroneous detail from the article. To call the area Merseyside and link to the present-day county is anachronistic; Liverpool at the time was situated in Lancashire not “Merseyside”. The removal of the metropolitan council holds no relevance as the county exists to this day following the creation of it in the 1970s. I am a born and raised scouser and i have no problem with this, there is no need to be pedantic about this issue.--EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 16:30, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merseyside

message: Both the Hull and Liverpool blitz articles claim that their area was the most heavily bombed outside of London. I'm not regular poster but surely somekind of ammendment should be made. It would seem Hull is the more likely candidate as it is also termed to be the most heavily bombed city outside London on the main 'The Blitz' article. JBenton.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.253.157.159 (talk) 14:12, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: By some measures Liverpool was even more heavily bombed than London, although London endured it for longer. Liverpool was also the site of the Durning Road Technical School disaster, which Churchill called "the worst single incident of the war." There are pretty convincing statistics in a book called "Port in a Storm" (1993) by John Hughes. RodCrosby (talk) 03:58, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

text: You have also to keep in mind that the WestCoast ports where strategically import than the East coast because of the Battle of the Atlantic and Troop movements.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 12:21, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Inconsistency with the 'Hull Blitz' article

message: The Liverpool museum link regards the May Blitz and Blitz appears to be broken , the suffix should be 'aspx' not 'asp' .  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.47.140.234 (talk) 20:12, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Broken Link

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message: In the final para of this section there is (apparently) a quote from The Times referring to bombing between 31 March and 13 April. Not only is the citation missing, but nowhere in the rest of the article is bombing in this period referred to. The Imperial War Museum makes no mention of air raids in March and April either.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by PointOfPresence (talk • contribs) 14.52, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
: When this was added in October 2012 (with this edit) it gave the date as 5 May 1941; this was changed, for no obvious reason, with this edit in April 2018. So I have restored the original text, which is how it appears in that days Times. I trust resolves the problem. Xyl 54 (talk) 21:34, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  May Blitz section