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15/09/2026

12/09/2026

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12/09/2026

AUTUMN FOOD
~Campfire pancakes🥞🔥🍪
~Orchard melt🍎🥪🧀
& lots more seasonal specials

08/09/2026

07/09/2026

Uncle John is Finally Back at Fort Perch Rock Battery ❤️

A Bit of Uncle John's Biography and his time at Sea during Wartime

John Dennett Was Born on 23rd July 1924 in Yorkshire but soon moved to Somerset with his parents as a child. John grew up in a town called Melksham and spent most of his youth there. Upon Leaving school he was not one to sit around and with the outbreak of the Second World War he enlisted to join the Royal Navy, even though he was only aged 17 this did not prevent him from joining.

John Dennett served on board LST 322 (a Landing Ship, Tank). Before D-Day at Sicily in 1943, both he and the ship had already participated in The Battle of the Atlantic and North Africa. It was in North Africa that instructions for Operation Husky were give and then came the landings at Sicily followed later by Salerno and Anzio in Italy.
The Landings at Sicily on 10th July 1943 were the First D-Day and first Invasion of Europe.

Next Uncle John went off to Normandy but First he came to Wallasey and met Aunty Joyce Via the Rycroft Dance Hall on Seaview Road. He then headed back to the South for the next D-Day
They loaded tanks and lorries in the Portsmouth area and then waited in the Solent. The LST landed her troops on Sword Beach in the late morning of D-Day. After 6 June, LST 322 made around another 15 trips to pick up more Allied troops from Portsmouth, Southampton or Tilbury. They often carried wounded men on the return journey, and there was a temporary operating theatre set up on board.

After the end of the war John moved to Wallasey where he rejoined Joyce and they later married. Just four years after the end of the war came the birth of our Family’s Football Club - Ashville FC. TBC…..Our Wartime Stories and Tea Time Tales give an insight into life during Wartime when the Bombs dropped on Wallasey

We have many Fascinating stories to tell on our Exclusive History Evenings this September at Fort Perch Rock

Get your Tickets and join us for our Penny Dreadful Victorian Crimes & Ghost Tales By Candlelight or our WW2 Tea Time Tales Specials - From Napoleonic Wars to Modern Day Stories. Book Now and find out more https://wallasey-days-gone-by.sumupstore.com/product/tales-of-the-mersey-talks-at-fort-perch-rock

07/09/2026