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Good evening and welcome to this evening's edition of Inside Out | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
North West. This week, we are in Liverpool. We will be looking at | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
amazing photographs of the damage inflicted on the city. Tonight, | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
amazing photographs of the damage go in search of illegal poachers on | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
our rivers. It is billions over go in search of illegal poachers on | :00:22. | :00:33. | |
years over time. Should the company cleaning Sellafield be kept on the | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
job got a Mac on the job —— on the job? It is pure chance that these | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
Fishing is one of the most popular everybody pays the law. There has | :00:47. | :01:14. | |
been a rise in the number of people who steal cash. It may look like a | :01:14. | :01:23. | |
scene from a Vietnamese war film but it in fact is the River Mersey, | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
scene from a Vietnamese war film but Fisheries patrol. The fisheries | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
enforcement officers on this boat are looking out for signs of illegal | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
fishing on a stretch of water which is popular with river poachers. | :01:35. | :01:50. | |
fishing on a stretch of water which it looks like they may have found | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
what they were looking for. A rope attached to the canisters floating | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
suspiciously like there could be an beneath the water. On this occasion | :02:00. | :02:15. | |
the object turns out to be a device put into the river to measure water | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
quality. But it's not long before the patrol comes across evidence | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
that someone has been illegally fishing in the area. They're looking | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
on the bank because it's an area we haven't seen anybody fishing before | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
and it's very difficult to get to, so it's either somebody who knows | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
it's good fishing and worth the effort to get here, the fishing | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
it's good fishing and worth the illegal because there's no fishing | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
somebody who doesn't want to be illegal because there's no fishing | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
by anybody doing what they are doing. So the officer on the bank | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
has just been having a look to see if there are any signs of fishing | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
tackle, fishing line, the kinds if there are any signs of fishing | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
stuff that an angler might leave behind if they've not tidied up | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
properly or evidence of somebody using illegal methods so little | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
properly or evidence of somebody of twine rather than fishing line | :02:56. | :02:56. | |
could be used to tie a gill net of twine rather than fishing line | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
because this is one of the areas where we've had people poaching | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
before. The fisheries officers have powers of arrest but catching the | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
poachers in the act is a lot harder. Steve Powell is the man whose job it | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
is to protect the region's rivers and lakes from the poachers. How big | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
England? Fish poaching is a massive concern for the Environment Agency. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
industry and the revenue that those approximately £12 to £14—million a | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
year. And then you have a sea trout run on top of that which is worth | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
another eight million pounds a year. So financially there's a lot of | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
value in the fish that run these river as well as the environmental | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
value of having these fish here river as well as the environmental | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
the first place. How are people catching these fish? What methods | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
are illegal? There are a wide range of different methods from set lines | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
with gill nets. There's a wide range of different methods; anything from | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
setting illegal nets, setting fish traps or setting lines, bated lines | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
in the water that fish passively, catch fish and they will return | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
in the water that fish passively, take those fish. In the UK there are | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
limits to the numbers of fish you are allowed to take but illegal | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
limits to the numbers of fish you like these can very quickly empty a | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
river of its entire fishing stock. It's something that upsets fishermen | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
like David Hunt who obey the law. You know I've been fishing now close | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
to 40 years and I haven't. What You know I've been fishing now close | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
would say is that I've never seen anything like that but it's becoming | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
apparent over the last two or three years that we're finding more and | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
more cases of illegal fishing, people fishing without rod licence, | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
people fishing for what is termed as 'the pot', fishing for fish that | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
they're simply going to catch, no matter what size, to take home to | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
eat. That's become more and more evident as the last few years have | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
progressed. You didn't use to see that ten years ago, maybe not five | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
years ago, certainly not but within the last two or three years there | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
has been than fish kills for no other reason than to feed people. | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
Very difficult to detect. This must yourself, honest fishermen? It is | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
because we're paddling up and down and we're casting and we're enjoying | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
the environment, the swans, the kingfishers, the otters and all | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
the environment, the swans, the wildlife that is here and has been | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
encouraged to flourish because this water that we're on at the moment is | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
in the top five improved from a quality point of view, waters in the | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
last two years, that's fact. So quality point of view, waters in the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
happens is the water gets better, the fish stocks get better, the | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
wildlife surrounding it gets better and everybody's happy and as long as | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
you are catching fish for pleasure continues, there's no problem. He | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
and a friend discovered just how serious a problem it is when they | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
went fishing on the River Mersey near Warrington earlier this year. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Well it was a January day and me and my friend George, he's my fishing | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
partner if you like, decided we should get out on the river for | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
partner if you like, decided we few hours just to see what we could | :05:37. | :05:37. | |
expectation really. They had in few hours just to see what we could | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
stumbled across an illegal fishing net which had been submerged under | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
poachers. I was on scene within net which had been submerged under | :05:46. | :05:56. | |
minutes and at that point where net which had been submerged under | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
met the anglers the net was on the river bank where they'd recovered | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
the net to the river bank. There was still fish in it. The anglers had | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
thought were still alive, back to the river, but some of the fish | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
thought were still alive, back to were still stuck in the net which | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
signings of life. So began a two—day surveillance operation mounted by | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
the Environment Agency in the hope that those responsible for setting | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
the nets would return to collect them. After probably three or four | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
hours of being in the observation point I was actually watching across | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
the confluence to where the nets were set and basically a figure | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
the confluence to where the nets down in a dinghy on the right bank | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
that we were located on, literally 15 to 20 metres from our location. | :06:37. | :06:59. | |
basically slowly came down the side of the bank and I gave the call | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
basically slowly came down the side the radio that 'Charlie One' was on | :07:04. | :07:04. | |
I could see a large splash as they ran through the undergrowth. You are | :07:04. | :07:44. | |
under arrest for suspicious illegal containing the nets. They had made | :07:44. | :07:54. | |
an attempt to conceal the article from us. The poachers, Gintaras | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Valiukonis and Arturas Bulota, appeared at Warrington Magistrates' | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Court in July where they were fined a total of £710 for illegal fishing. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
It's believed the pair, who are a total of £710 for illegal fishing. | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
distribute the fish within the Manchester. The problem of some | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
Eastern Europeans fishing illegal Environment Agency has launched | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Eastern Europeans fishing illegal campaign to try and discourage this | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
practice. Fishing is a very popular sport in Eastern Europe but the | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
practice. Fishing is a very popular are very different to here. So the | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
Environment Agency has joined forces Association and the Angling Trust to | :08:31. | :08:40. | |
community. Polish angler Radoslav Papiewski has been helping to get | :08:40. | :09:00. | |
tensions. It is normal back at home that it is illegal here. We asked if | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
there was something we could do together. What is the difference in | :09:08. | :09:24. | |
laws between both countries? Well the main difference is that in | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Eastern European countries and pretty much all over Europe you | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Eastern European countries and actually remove fish for food. If | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
you look back through history fish was always removed from the water | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
generations have been doing it. We've got different regulations | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
generations have been doing it. in Poland because we've got certain | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
sizes of fish which we have got in Poland because we've got certain | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
return back into the water. So some especially when they are a good | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
return back into the water. So some to lay the eggs, however if they | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
reach a minimum size we can actually remove them and take them and eat | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
them. In UK there is a different by—laws which is not allowing people | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
to take fish out of the water. And multi—lingual leaflets, and I have | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
one with me which explains the basic rules of fishing in the UK and it's | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
been translated into different languages and these are probably the | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
migrant workers. But for those who still flout the law the fisheries | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
patrol will continue to police our environment from the poachers. | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
Coming up, how the impact of the Blitz is still felt today. Ships | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
were not anchored here because of currently spending billions of | :10:22. | :10:33. | |
pounds to make safe the nuclear Cumbria. Should the government | :10:33. | :10:42. | |
watchdog allowed the contract to run or look at somebody else to take | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
over this complex operation will stop it has weeks to decide. For the | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
first time in British television, Chris Jack and that Chris Jackson | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
Sellafield in West Cumbria. Once it was a bomb factory, then there was a | :10:54. | :11:23. | |
very public world first. It gives me pride that I now open this power | :11:23. | :11:32. | |
station. In 2013, it is a place military and industrial history | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
means there's more nuclear waste stored here than anywhere else in | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
the UK. This site is one of the stored here than anywhere else in | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
complex and hazardous in the world. Security, as you'd expect is tight | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
here, it's taken me months to gain access. This is the most dangerous | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
and oldest part of Sellafield. The top priority is to make these ponds | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
People may not think this is a big task because you cannot see the | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
problem here, can you? It is a massive task because the stuff is | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
still active so it needs to be handled with the respect and care it | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
deserves. It's the first time a British TV crew has been a granted | :12:12. | :12:21. | |
Under the water we have got lots of materials from the early nuclear | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
facility safe by removing that fuel in a safe manner. There's only | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
limited historic plans to help Tony and his team clear these potentially | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
lethal ponds, a legacy of the speed constructed. So it's left to Tony to | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
untangle this dangerous part of constructed. So it's left to Tony to | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
industrial history. Decommissioning was not considered at the time so | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
that's given us a massive challenge on how to do it safely and in the | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
environment, and we've got it in an aging facility. This was the first | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
in the country and we have done aging facility. This was the first | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
in a very tight time scale. In a couple of years, we had the pile | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
reactors built, commissioned and operational. You could not do that | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
today? No, the rigor we have to operational. You could not do that | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
through to develop the safety cases alone like this would take a lot | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
longer than that. It must be strange though, the decommissioning on this | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
site will not be finished in your or my lifetime? The site itself you are | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
probably talking 100 years or so, all I can do in my lifetime is | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
ensure we do this particular area safely. The scale of the project is | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
billion to clean up Sellafield. safely. The scale of the project is | :13:28. | :13:44. | |
£67.5bn. That's more than Tunisia's economy produces in a year. In | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
£67.5bn. That's more than Tunisia's Authority, the NDA, appointed three | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
companies to tackle the hazardous clean up. Areva, AMEC and URS. They | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
make up Nuclear Management Partners, NMP, and their subsidiary Sellafield | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
Ltd. Their contract is reviewed every five years. So how is it | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
going? Of the 14 major projects every five years. So how is it | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
the go here 12 have delivered less than planned. Deadlines have been | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
missed, meaning buildings remain projects are already over budget, in | :14:06. | :14:15. | |
million. And in some cases, the deadline has had to be extended | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
million. And in some cases, the some seven years. And it's problems | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
stinging criticism and cast an unwelcome spotlight on the work | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
being done here. When an influential they blamed poor management for | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
totally unacceptable delays and described the position as dire. | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
I accept dealing with nuclear waste is a pretty unique problem and we | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
want to make sure in this particular very difficult hugely important | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
project that the people involved are tax—payers money to best value. So | :14:46. | :14:56. | |
how does Nuclear Management Partners answer that? We're on track to meet | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
the min performance standards, we're £1—billion of savings we've achieved | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
the best safety record Sellafield as records have started it is my belief | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
we are on track, and we've earned the right for next five years. But | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
one project was £600 million over. That cannot be put down to we didn't | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
know what we were dealing with. That cannot be put down to we didn't | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
complicated nature of what you were doing? The increase in cost was | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
really where we took n very early estimate and understood the nature | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
of the project we built in a large contingency, like in the Olympics. | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
It does not feel like a good news story and we take the issue very | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
seriously but this is about maturing and understanding the issues as | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
seriously but this is about maturing have seen on site. There are a lot | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
of unknowns we have to deal with. Yes, but the taxpayer will have | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
of unknowns we have to deal with. taxpayer as well. We do things as | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
effectively and efficiently as possible at Sellafield. Back on | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
site, my tour continues. How big is this project? It's a massive project | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
for the site. The site itself is six—square kilometres in total size. | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
It's one of the most congested industrial facilities in the world. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
Chris is leading a team who are dismantling a building, just like an | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
old grain storage silo. But it's full of nuclear waste. And it's | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
old grain storage silo. But it's working site trying to do all this? | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
It's a working site. It's like a small town and there are possibly | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
10,000 people who work on a daily basis. 38 kilometres of roads even. | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
It's a huge challenge in a very tight space. You are having to put a | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
building within a building. You tight space. You are having to put a | :16:36. | :16:51. | |
effectively? We do, yes. We take the waste out, we have to make sure | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
effectively? We do, yes. We take the contained to protect the operators | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
and the environment and that is contained to protect the operators | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
decommissioning it often involves construction activities, treatment | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
plants, which ultimately have to be decommissioned. Here they're testing | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
the robots that will play a part in removing the most hazardous waste. | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
On this particular silo, because it's dry we are actually using an | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
arrangement where we cut a hole literally in the side of the silos | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
and using remote machines to grab containers that are shielded from | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
the radioactivity and then grouted and stored. At the end of this month | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
Authority has to decide whether and stored. At the end of this month | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
let Sellafield Ltd continue for another five years or find someone | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
else. The contract negotiations another five years or find someone | :17:30. | :17:41. | |
now at a critical phase — not helped by a recent expenses scandal. NMP | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
executives claimed thousands of pounds for dinners abroad, golf | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
trips and in one case a £715 taxi ride for an unnamed manager and | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
trips and in one case a £715 taxi The money has now been repaid. This | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
committee's grilling of the team in charge raised serious questions | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
about the 11 million pound salary bill for just 16 executives. I did | :18:04. | :18:19. | |
it on 11 averages at 690,000 per secretary in there. It sounds like a | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
lot of money at the top. The 11 salaries that get paid it refers, | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
but to the overall package of having people here in West Cumbria and | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
working at Sellafield so we are people here in West Cumbria and | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
paying those level of salaries the salaries we pay reflect the industry | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
norms. And it's the top man at the government watchdog, the Nuclear | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
Decommissioning Authority, who will decide if the current operators | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
Decommissioning Authority, who will million so far. Did they deserve | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
that fee for the job they did? Yes, the fee they have been paid is | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
contract we have with them. The the fee they have been paid is | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
the fee was down last year compared to the year before reflects the | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
the fee was down last year compared that performance was down — so I | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
think we can demonstrate that fee is linked to performance. So it is | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
think we can demonstrate that fee is a reward for failure then? I do | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
think we can demonstrate that fee is believe so. They have done the job | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
they have done and they do not get rewarded if they do not do it. | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
There has also been criticism of the NDA, for whether the oversight has | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
been good enough, do you think there organisation about this? I would not | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
suggest we've been perfect but I think we have been doing all we | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
suggest we've been perfect but I to make sure we can have the right | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
level of oversight, but where we've identified issues that have been | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
unsatisfactory we've taken very strong firm appropriate action, | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
unsatisfactory we've taken very we stand ready to do that as we | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
unsatisfactory we've taken very forward. We have seen how complex | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
and expensive the clean—up is. But it cannot be avoided. Britain needs | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
to sort out its nuclear legacy. it cannot be avoided. Britain needs | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
will now in a few weeks whether it cannot be avoided. Britain needs | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
people who have embarked on it will be entrusted to finish the job. | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
During World War II, Liverpool came under extensive air raid attacks, | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
beautiful house lost most of its glass when a bomb landed a short | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
away. Simon O'Brien has been to glass when a bomb landed a short | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
a remarkable collection of photos of bomb damaged suburbia — discovered | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
hidden away in the city's police headquarters. My street in Liverpool | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
is made up largely of old Victorian and Georgian houses and every now | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
and again as I stroll up it, I come across gaps where there are much | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
newer places and I've often wondered archive has just been uncovered | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Many of us remember the days of archive has just been uncovered | :20:46. | :20:58. | |
and 1941 when the Luftwaffe nightly visited our cities and towns leaving | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
Liverpool heard the fearful air visited our cities and towns leaving | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
sirens over 500 times with bombs dropped on the city on no less than | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
79 occasions. But we wouldn't have known much more about the impact | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
Liverpool if Merseyside Police hadn't made a remarkable discovery, | :21:17. | :21:30. | |
labelled "Blitz". There are 161 photographs in total. Kate McNichol | :21:30. | :21:39. | |
negatives brought into the modern world by their forensic science | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
It's pure chance that they came light. The chief constable was maybe | :21:41. | :21:57. | |
rather far sighted and saying, actually we need to keep an accurate | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
record of what's happening. I mean you'll get ones like this which | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
said, there you go: Air raid damage, the chief constable. Didn't they | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
also record where the bomb was struck? They did. It was up to the | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
air raid wardens as far as I know. They would then report in and the | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
positions of the bombs would be plotted. And then they could then | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
take action against the ones that had failed to explode. Yes, it's | :22:22. | :22:31. | |
almost easier to imagine the docks and factories getting attacked as | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
they are strategic targets. But and factories getting attacked as | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
photos that really hit me are the ones of suburbia. The damage was not | :22:36. | :22:46. | |
commercial buildings. You get things saying that there was destruction of | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
4,400 homes, serious damage to a further 16,500 and slight damage to | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
a further 45,500. For the first further 16,500 and slight damage to | :22:51. | :23:08. | |
in a great war, there was no front line and the battle was waged on our | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
own doorsteps. The Luftwaffe did its Firefighters battled relentlessly | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
through the night to extinguish hundreds of fires around the city | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
before the next fearful wave of attack. Although the German bombers | :23:20. | :23:32. | |
caused huge civilian casualties across the city and destroyed many | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
homes, actually they missed quite a few key targets so Liverpool was | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
they had hit here, things could few key targets so Liverpool was | :23:37. | :23:46. | |
been much worse. I think it's a reflection of the ability of the | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
aeroplanes and the crews in those days to be precise with their attack | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
and to be precise where the bombs landed was not anything like the | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
well, let's see what we can manage. That said, it was still desperately | :24:00. | :24:13. | |
Ullapool was blown into a million pieces here, in the River Mersey. It | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
still has an impact on shipping today. So ships will not anchor | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
still has an impact on shipping here because of what happened in the | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
wasn't a big ship, but the pieces are dangerous, if you drop your | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
anchor here, obviously it goes into the mud and sand and so on. It could | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
come back with munitions that are not exploded. I'm a massive fan | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
come back with munitions that are Look at that lovely building there | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
behind me and yet here in Derby Square in the heart of the city | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
where sits the gorgeous Victoria Monument, there is a distinct lack | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
of it. Look over here. What's that? '50s? Nothing to write home about. | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
And then on the other side of the square you've got the law courts | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
themselves. How ugly does a building have to be? And finally running | :24:56. | :25:05. | |
you've got this '70s carbuncle. Merseyside Police negatives give a | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
new insight into the gaps left by Luftwaffe air raids. There's the | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
same mix of old and new build where my Dad grew up in Toxteth as in | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
Woolton. The first one came down, just over the houses there into | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
Woolton. The first one came down, Street and that was the closest | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
Woolton. The first one came down, to us. The second one, this is Fox | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
Hill Street and the second one was just 30 yards down there. Then a | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
third one, Kelvin Grove and the fourth one hit the edge of Princes | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
Park. And where are you at this point, are you in the air raid | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
shelter? We're in the air raid shelter But you can hear, could | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
shelter? We're in the air raid tell how close they are? Oh yes | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
very, when that one came down it was quite a screaming sound, whistling, | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
screaming sound as the bomb came down and a really loud explosion and | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
it was a sort of a whack and you felt the blast hit your ears like | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
that. Were you terrified? No, not at all, I wasn't frightened at all | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
that. Were you terrified? No, not at an eight year old child, it was | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
that. Were you terrified? No, not at bit of an adventure actually. During | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
shrapnel was coming down, shrapnel from bombs and this was all over the | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
shrapnel. Our anti—aircraft Gunners went into action. In the chaos of | :26:17. | :26:26. | |
war as the bombers just wanted to unload their payload as close to the | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
targets as possible and get out unload their payload as close to the | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
here, no building was safe from unload their payload as close to the | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
bombing and that included churches. St Luke's here in Liverpool city | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
centre looks like it had a lucky deceptive. The building was hit | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
centre looks like it had a lucky an incendiary device on the evening | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
around about midnight, 1941. We interviewed a lady some years ago | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
sheltering in her cellars just behind the church on Roscoe street | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
and about half past three, four o'clock in the morning they heard | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
the bells fall from the tower and to quote her she said "We knew then our | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
church was gone". And that must quote her she said "We knew then our | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
have been awful. But it wasn't quite gone? Not quite gone. It's the | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
Liverpool who lost their lives during the blitz. St Luke's was | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
Liverpool who lost their lives the only church hit but is in my | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
reminder with its one remaining piece of stained glass and open | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
Looking at these photographs we understand more about the changes in | :27:24. | :27:43. | |
recorded as moments in history due to the foresight of people working | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
at Merseyside Police during World War II. For somebody who didn't | :27:46. | :27:54. | |
at Merseyside Police during World through that era, I think it is | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
almost impossible to imagine what it must have been like. Perhaps in | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
almost impossible to imagine what it small way, these photographs help to | :28:01. | :28:23. | |
bring it back to life. Remarkable photos. That is it for this week. | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
Don't forget you can watch it again on the BBC iPlayer. Goodbye full up | :28:28. | :28:36. | |
—— goodbye. Next week, Wilfred Owen and his life in Birkenhead. It hotly | :28:36. | :28:43. |