The year 2007 sees Liverpool's year of Heritage, the 800th year of a fascinating and vibrant history, and it is also the eve of the city's European Capital of Culture that follows on in 2008. Many new books and magazine articles will accompany the world-wide media coverage of a city famous for its bustling seaport, football teams, pop music and much more; but one little part of its history has never been told, and one of its secret wartime duties has been hidden for over six decades...

Author: David Hayward and Alan Earnshaw

Book Description: In over 200 large format images, this book uses hitherto classified photographs of outstanding quality to present a view of the 'secret' goings-on around Wavertree and Edge Hill. Here, in bombed-out factories and on waste ground around Smithdown Lane, Overbury Street, Crown Street, Queensland Road and Falkner Street, a vast fleet of military vehicles were erected in great secrecy. Assembling crated vehicles sent across the Atlantic in the convoys, an army of engineers aided by old men, young boys and women, assembled a vast fleet of military might, initially from Canada and then the USA. This remarkable book tells the forgotten story, of how Pearson's of Shaw Street coped with this vital work, and how they were then reorganised for the peace times that followed. *

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