Strangers rushed to the aid of a 86-year-old man and his wife after he fell when taking her out of her care home for afternoon tea.
Gill Boydell, 60, said her amazing dad, Alex, was "devastated" when his beloved wife, June - who suffers with dementia - had to go in a care home last September.
Still making the effort to treat June every week, Alex slipped last Thursday (August 19) after taking her out of her care home for afternoon tea in Wallasey Village.
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Gill told the ECHO : "My mum has dementia and is in a care home so my dad had gone to pick her up to take her to Fleur Ashely for afternoon tea, against my and my sister Kate's advice I have to say.
"He's been a bit wobbly on his feet recently so we both said to him just go visit her in the care home until we work out what the problem is.
"That morning he confessed that he'd booked to go to Fleur Ashely, so I said make sure the taxi drops you off right outside so all you've got to do is walk across the pavement.
"When the guy phoned me to say he'd fallen, he said apparently he was walking to get a bus from outside the lighthouse. So I haven't even asked him about that yet and I couldn't really turn up and say, 'I told you so!'"
Gill said she couldn't believe how many people who witnessed her dad's accident came to help and comfort her confused mum after he fell.
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Posting on Facebook after her dad's fall, she said: "I just wanted to say a huge thankyou to all the lovely people who stopped to help my dad when he fell outside Fleek in Wallasey village on Thursday afternoon," adding: "Thankyou all so much in a world where so many horrible things are happening currently it was truly heart warming to experience the genuine kindness of you all xxxx".
She thanked the numerous people and shop workers who stopped to help and gave her mum a chair and comforted her while her dad was lying on the floor waiting for an ambulance.
After receiving a phone call from one of the kind strangers, Gill rushed round to where her dad had fallen to stay with her parents until the ambulance arrived.
Her dad was found to have broken his hip during the fall and underwent a hip replacement next day.
Gill said her dad - who lives in an annexe at the bottom of her garden - has felt "guilty" and "devastated" since his wife June had to go in a care home last September.
She said: "He phones her every day and tries to take her out about three times a week, which in itself is a big thing for him to cope with at the moment.
Adding: "He's very in love with her, shall we say. When they see each other he's always - 'Oh my lovely girl' and 'I've missed you so much'.
"That was one of the reasons I put it on Facebook. There's so much horrible stuff in the news and I just thought that how people helped him was so heart warming that I just wanted to put something out there."
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