A bunker central to the Allied Forces' victory in WWII is "hidden in plain sight" in Liverpool city centre.
Former history teacher Dave Roberts, 52, started working at Western Approaches three years ago after it was taken over by Big Heritage. The social enterprise group is also the custodian of submarine U-534 and operates the U-Boat Story in Birkenhead. Speaking of the control room in Western Approaches, housed in Exchange Flags, museum manager Dave said: "It continually gives me goosebumps, that sense of the importance of that, and the honour is to look after it."
Opposite the bunker is one of Liverpool's carparks, sat where office buildings home to shipping companies once stood. Every day, a 14-year-old, who worked there as a messenger boy during the Blitz, passed the six-foot wooden fence, Royal Marine guards and sentry boxes outside Western Approaches. But many buildings in Liverpool looked like that during the war, and the boy, who Dave interviewed, never realised how special the site was.
