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Site of the last bomb to fall on Swindon in WW2. At about 9:00am on Sat 29th August 1942 a single 550lb bomb dropped from about 40,000ft (see "Spitfire" by John Nicol) fell in front of 85 Drove Road killing 8 people. The previous day a similar stratospheric attack in Bristol killed 45 people and injured 56. (See also commemorative edition of the Swindon Evening Advertiser of 8th May 1945 '