Boy left alone to build a cathedral 'bigger than St Paul's'

It's hard to believe but during the early years of the World War Two one teenager was left alone to build a gigantic cathedral in Liverpool city centre.

Arthur Ronald Brady was a 19-year-old bricklayer's apprentice when the rest of his workmates were called up to more "urgent work" during the early years of the war.

This left Arthur, known as Jim, to crack on with the task of laying the bricks of the colossal cathedral accompanied only by Paddy, an older Irishman, who mixed and carried his mortar.