As you know, at the moment the libraries are helping to relive wartime memories.

Local aviation enthusiast Keith Atherton, who wrote the booklet “Surprising Connections” about the links between aviation and St Helens, asks: “I wondered if you could ask readers to let you have pictures of any still-existing wartime structures etc: very much as you receive your ‘Where are we?’ photographs.

“One example could be the large painted, but now hard to distinguish due to road dirt, EWS notice beneath the railway bridge over Haresfinch Road (A571). It was to direct Fire Appliances to the available water supply in Rainford Brook that flows beneath the road before the bridge is reached when leaving town to Wigan.

“Older readers will remember the large emergency water tanks that were strategically placed in the roads around the town for use in the event of air raid fires. I can remember one being sited in Bleak Hill Road between Brookside Avenue and the brook where Eccleston becomes Windle.

I have often thought it strange that a tank should have been located at that point, just a hundred yards or so from the brook beneath the road.”

“Mentioning the brook reminds me that steam lorries could often be seen stopped by the bridge there, collecting water to replenish the lorry’s water tank.

Stopping there these days would constitute something of a road hazard!”

So folks, can you help us with photos and written notes, including the locations of Home Guard defences or structures now gone etc.

I remember in the 1980s the concrete blocks that were still ready to block tanks on Clock Face Road, but sadly I don’t have a picture. If enough material comes in, I will make it into a display.