- Contributed by听
- ActionBristol
- People in story:听
- Albert William Price and Jean Mary Price
- Location of story:听
- York Place, Brandon Hill
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4021633
- Contributed on:听
- 07 May 2005
This Story is submitted by a volunteer on behalf of Radio Bristol Action Desk at City of Bristol College.
On the winter of 1941 and I had gone to the cinema on my own called the 'bughouse' and we heard the Air Raid Sirens. Manager stopped the film and told us to get out, so ran up Hotwells Road back home. The incendiary bombs were falling in the road and I dodged them as I ran. Then there was a very large bang at the bottom of Jacob Wells Road and it took out 3 shops. Terrific noise and mess and I heard that 5 from a family of 8 were killed, name of Ogden. When I got home, they had all gone to a shelter on Brandon Hill, so I hid under the kitchen table. I realise now that children of 11 had plenty of freedom then compared to now. A family, uncle, came to rescue me and took me to a shelter. 106 Barrowmead Drive, Lawrence Weston, BS11 0JN 01179 828629. Shipwright from Avonmouth.
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