Post by Kev on Feb 5, 2004 7:37:02 GMT -5
A WARTIME office clerk will take centre stage in a new TV documentary about the stories behind some of the country's most historic buildings.
Jean McDowell, 76, worked in Liverpool's Albany Building at the height of World War II.
Her stories of the Grade II-listed landmark in Old Hall Street feature in Derelict Discoveries,on ITV this month.
The film crew took Mrs McDowell back to where she worked from 1943 to 1945 as a teenage girl in the accounts office of the Navy Army Air Force Institute (NAAFI).
Mrs McDowell, from Calderstones, said: "The building was extremely comfortable and had open fires. There was a gentlemen's club down-stairs. I used to go down to the club at lunch time and bring back a tray with baked beans on toast."
Mrs McDowell had worked during the Blitz in the nearby, now demolished Hood Street.
"It was hard but everyone was very cheerful," she added.
The Albany, built in 1856, was a meeting place for cotton merchants. It has been empty since the 1980s and is undergoing an £11m transformation into luxury flats.
Jean McDowell, 76, worked in Liverpool's Albany Building at the height of World War II.
Her stories of the Grade II-listed landmark in Old Hall Street feature in Derelict Discoveries,on ITV this month.
The film crew took Mrs McDowell back to where she worked from 1943 to 1945 as a teenage girl in the accounts office of the Navy Army Air Force Institute (NAAFI).
Mrs McDowell, from Calderstones, said: "The building was extremely comfortable and had open fires. There was a gentlemen's club down-stairs. I used to go down to the club at lunch time and bring back a tray with baked beans on toast."
Mrs McDowell had worked during the Blitz in the nearby, now demolished Hood Street.
"It was hard but everyone was very cheerful," she added.
The Albany, built in 1856, was a meeting place for cotton merchants. It has been empty since the 1980s and is undergoing an £11m transformation into luxury flats.
