Adrodd fel Amhriodol
Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: EAW010657 / 642031)
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I was almost age 3 when my family was bombed out in September 1940 from our home in Kingsway, Little Stoke. The bomb that nearly 'got us' was the last in a stick aimed by some German in the raid on the Bristol Aeroplane Works. The works are seen spread out in large factory areas on the west side of the GWR railway complex. Where the hedge intersects with the houses is where our father had dug our air raid shelter. It was in line with the usual stream that followed the course of hedgerows and my father ingeniously diverted the stream to the lower land towards the railway line. He could not have foretold that his actions would save all the lives of all his family to come to after the raid. The bomb came to soft earth and the blast removed the top of his shelter and injured my mother. But she and her three children survived although she suffered blast injury which she stoically bore for the rest of her life of 88 years. '
