WARTIME COMPILATION

These are all amateur films sourced from 4 different families. The colour footage is pretty rare as it was illegal to use colour film during the war. The footage starts in 1939 at Fowey in Cornwall and shows a family at play oblivious of the pending conflict. The march past by the Home Guard and inspection is all in Liverpool and the men are marching past Liverpool Lime Street station towards Wellingtons Pillar. In the scene where the 2 women and 3 men are standing in front of the car the man is showing them a German incendiary bomb. Also worth noting is the car has dimmed headlights and a splinter proof reinforced roof. When the men in uniform are posing in the garden one is obviously wearing a Home Guard uniform the other a sailors uniform. The sailor is from HMS Bulldog a British destroyer directly involved in the capture of a German Enigma coding machine. All this footage is filmed in the Liverpool area the family house was in Merrrilocks Road (Still standing) which is in Crosby where the Anthony Gormley statues are displayed on the beach The colour footage of the Civil Defence exercise was almost certainly filmed in Surrey and the B/W poison gas exercise was filmed in the Guildford area by the markings on the vehicles. The bridging and bomb disposal exercises were filmed in Wiltshire and Dorset.