'Shanty town' where people lived in rusting old buses that became 'a running joke'

A lost "shanty town" were many Merseysiders once lived became home to thousands of makeshift shacks, with entire families living in old buses without electricity or running water.

Today, Talacre Beach in North Wales is regarded as a popular spot for holidaymakers and a wildlife haven with far-reaching golden sands. But the area comes from humble beginnings and at one point in time was described by a newspaper as the "slum by the sea."

Located at the mouth of the Dee Estuary and Liverpool Bay, its first holiday chalets were built on The Warren – an area of uncultivated land near the beach – in the early 1930s. But following the outbreak of World War Two, the chalets on The Warren became filled with evacuees fleeing bombing raids targeting Merseyside for its docks and shipyards, North Wales Live recently reported.