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This story is submitted by a volunteer on behalf of Radio Bristol Action Desk at City of Bristol College.

I worked at Filton airplane company in the wages department, I was there when it was bombed. I was in the shelter next to the one that was bombed.
It was very dramatic. We were told not to look right or left when we came out of the shelter.
When doing the wage cards we couldn't get up and leave them on the table, you had to pick them up and put them in the safe. We were usually last to get to the air raid shelters.
WE would go from Filton to have lunch and there was a plane above us fighting. WE weren't aware it was quite so dangerous but we just went on with having lunch.
The German pilot that led the raid on Filton had worked there before the war in 1937 and so knew where everything was.

My father was an Air raid warden we lived behind a churchyard in Weston Super Mare. it was hit by incendiary bombs. My father had to put an incendiary bomb from the corner of the landing which was still burning and put it in a bucket of sand and put it outside. This happened about 1940. There were three girls living in the house including myself. We would get under the Morrison shelter together and sleep there at night. I was about 19 at the time.

After the raid I was sent to Weston aircraft factory, I used to cycle to work. One morning I was cycling up the road and someone shouted at me to not move and the electrical wires had all been hit down and so I was directed through them all.

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