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St Lukes up for sale

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Having lived through the war in Liverpool, I have always regarded St Lukes as a memorial to all the people who lost their lives in the blitz. I trust that if it is sold the new owners will bear this in mind.

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I remember vividly my Dad taking me to see the still-smouldering ruins of St Luke's. And I am surprised that in the run-up to the remembrances associated with WW1 the council should be selling what should have already been an 'official' memorial for the victims of the Blitz on Liverpool in WW2.

If memory serves me correctly St Luke's was hit during the massive Blitz of the first week of May 1941, the 1st to the 8th. On the 13th of May there was a mass communal burial in Anfield Cemetery of over 550 victims of that series of raids. Many of the dead had not been named. Many families, including my own, had members who never came home that week, whose bodies were never found and identified. St Luke's could have made a fitting memorial to the 'un-named'.
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dickiesam wrote: St Luke's could have made a fitting memorial to the 'un-named'.
Albeit unofficial, I think this was how we have always thought of the Church.
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