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This story is submitted by Helen Hughes of the People's War team in Wales on behalf of Sheila O'Leary and is added to the site with her permission.

The landmine in Cardiff demolished Hollymans bakery — it was a bakery right on the corner of the street and if the siren went, they’d look out to the bus stop nearby and call people in to their cellars. So you never knew how many people came over. They all died, the family who lived there and the people who walked in who thought they were saving their lives.
There were many people killed in that actual bombing…but the blast from it took all the roofs off the houses, they were terraced houses, you went off to Auntie somebody until the roofs were put back on. But I remember — I was five years old — that I couldn’t eat my box of chocolates because the glass from the windows had come in and splintered into the box — it had gone straight through the cardboard and into the chocolate.

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