World War II

Jim Stott with his authentic 1940s police car at VE80 festival in Witton Park, Blackburn.

I restored an 88 year old police car that was dumped in a scrapyard

Jane Richards, reading her father's sermon.

Poignant 1945 VE Day sermon discovered in drawer after 80 years

We miss these historic Liverpool shops - from Blacklers to Littlewoods

Members of the public fill The Mall before a flypast during the Queen's Birthday Parade, the Trooping the Colour, as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in London in June 2022 (Photo: DANIEL LEAL/POOL/AFP/AFP via Getty Images)

UK to get extra bank holiday in 2025 to mark major historic event

Irene Hughes and other residents of Claudia Street add the finishing touches to their decorations in preparation for the match between Bulgaria and Brazil at the nearby Goodison Park football ground during the 1966 World Cup, July 13, 1966.

26 historical pictures of Liverpool to take you back to the 60s

Film fan spends £35,000 building his own World War II style bunker

Stephen Graham has joined the cast of the new Peaky Blinders film, alongside several other notable actors.

Stephen Graham joins star-studded cast of highly-awaited Netflix film

WW2 bomb explodes on airport taxiway.

Watch: Buried WW2 bomb explodes on airport taxiway

Cillian Murphy will reprise his role as Birmingham gangster Tommy Shelby in a Peaky Blinders new movie coming to Netflix, made in association with BBC Film.

Peaky Blinders movie filming begins at 'secret Liverpool location'

Kate Winslet takes on the role of renowned WWII photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller in the biopic "Lee," our in UK cinemas from this week.

Explainer Who was Lee Miller, the focus of Kate Winslet’s new biopic, “Lee?”

Second World War-era Avro Lancaster Bomber flies over lake.

Watch: Second World War-era Avro Lancaster Bomber flies over lake

Kent Square Liverpool

12 wonderfully named lost streets that vanished off Liverpool map

Lord Street in Liverpool, circa 1903. Image: Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

The 350-year-old story of Lord Street in 15 wonderful pictures

Maps and planning documents detailing top-secret plans were donated to House on the Hill museum.

Watch: Top secret D-Day documents from Normandy found in old car boot

111-year-old John Alfred Tinniswood from Merseyside is now the world’s oldest living man. Image: Guinness World Records

Fish & chip loving 111-year-old from Merseyside is world's oldest man

Levi, 25. Image: Emily Bonner

I'm a sofa-surfing chef with 'no chance' of buying a home

The suspected WW2 bomb is detonated in The Dips on New Brighton promenade. Image: Paul Boyd/SWNS

Watch: Unexploded World War II bomb blown up at New Brighton promenade

World War 2 bunker and staple of Winston Churchill’s ‘chain home’ radar given stunning holiday-home makeover

World War II bunker transformed into coastal holiday home

Liverpool Overhead Railway, Strand Street and James Street, 2-3 May 1941. Photo: Merseyside Police

📷 Photos: Liverpudlians called on to preserve memories of the Blitz

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