Do you remember Duff's the electrical shop up by the baths end of lodgy? Duffs was first set up in Lodge Lane in case their other shop in Smithdown Road (originally set up in 1930)was bombed by the Luftwaffe during the war. (later their fears were realised and it was bombed in May1941. The bombings in May were the worst of the whole war.

 

29 Clarence Street was
Also bombed

1741 people were killed and 1154 people were seriously injured throughout Merseyside between 1 – 7 May. My mother told me that our house was bombed whilst she was carrying me - but of course I was born 2 years later.

Between August 1940 and January 1942, almost 4000 people were killed and 3500 seriously injured in Merseyside as the result of German air raids. 

I was told many years ago that one of the big houses in Grove Park at the bottom of Lodge Lane was a command headquarters for the Allies... Certainly the 'Western Approaches Command' headquarters was based in the depths of Exchange Buildings...