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Post by ronturner on Apr 19, 2013 7:11:12 GMT 1
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Post by viscount on Apr 19, 2013 8:34:42 GMT 1
I can always remember as a youngster being told about 'Operation Pluto' while driving through Cheshire, and that large tanks concealed under grass at Beeston were part of the supply-line leading to France following the D-day invasion. The tanks at Beeston being part of a chain of storage tanks used to build-up a supply of petrol before the D-Day landings. Indeed after the war the tanks continued to be used to store Britain's strategic reserve of oil until sometime after the 70s Middle East supply fuel crisis.
How true all this is, I don't know, but with Stanlow not so far away to the north it always made sense.
On the same thought line, I can also remember being told that the Stanlow refinery flame burnt right through the war. With the blackout it was a beacon to the German bombers. When an attack was imminent they lit fires along the Clwydian Range in North Wales to decoy the navigators and bomb-aimers away from Stanlow and the Port of Liverpool.
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