The school in the above picture is Christ Church Claughton(my old Primary School). My old house 12 Dingle Rd is on the right edge of the photo directly opposite the school. On the night this happened my old mum said the house next door 10 Dingle Rd just fell down.
We lived at 23 Bromborough Road, Lower Bebington, and only one house had an Anderson shelter, in the front garden of policeman Mr Ellison's house at No.11. For the rest of us in the vicinity, I remember big timber joists being installed in the cellar of Stevens' grocers shop opposite and this was where we spent our air raids. There was an Elsan chemical toilet behind a sacking screen in the corner and the instruction was to sing out loud when anyone was using it! There was an overpowering smell of creosote, as used in that contraption! That reinforcement is probably still there, holding up the shop above.
