brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
100 years ago; Bloody Sunday
80 years ago today the Bristol Blitz began. Before it ended:
919 tons of high-explosive bombs plus many thousands of incendiary bombs dropped in clusters
1,299 people killed, 1,303 seriously injured and 697 rescued from the debris of bombed buildings
89,080 buildings damaged including 81,830 houses completely destroyed and over 3,000 rendered unusable and later demolished
Most of the old town centre was destroyed, hence the current sometimes odd look of places near the new centre.
Collection of oral histories.
Truly horrific night, many times when walking down the subway alongside the rebuilt Marples I shuddered thinking of all those buried people alongside where I was walking.Nice one Sprocket, my grandfather was a regular at this boozer but was working that night.
Death at Marples - 12th December 1940
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If I can find it I’ll pm you a mention of him, I wish we had blokes like him around today. He knew which side he was on.Hadfield’s was a massive site and a good firm to work for.
NVA was the American term. Viet Cong was pejorative.
Combined PAVN and PLAF units captured Saigon.
Bellendathon! I’d forgotten all about it.