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Recently I read a book about the Bristol blitz and found out that only one landmine was dropped on rural Somerset during the war.
This must have been in the North Wootton area because my mother explained to me that walking home from a dance in Wells one evening and meeting her mother in a country lane near the family home, upon entering the house they found my grandfather sheltering under the kitchin table cracking walnuts with an old iron.

I also found out that only one German aircraft crashed within the city limits of Bristol and this occured in the grounds of either Cosham Hospital or Glenside Hospital. My aunt, Marjorie Brain, told me that her father - in - law who was on fire watch attended the crash scene, and remained there to clean up the cockpit of the enemy aeroplane.

Lastly my Aunty Vera Green, was a farm girl on her family farm outside of Coventry and watched from a distance the blitz and destruction of Coventry from the safety of their fields, my aunt described in detail the sky being alight with orange and red flames.

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