The end of war in Europe was a bit of a blur for Ula Rigg, now aged 102.The Auxiliary Fire Service switchboard operator, then stationed at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, was hoisted on top of a brick ...

BBC News spoke to some Bristolians who remember the Bristol Blitz. Nurse Sybil Moores in the 1930s and today Mrs Moores said although there was a shelter outside the infirmary, she "never went ...

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The Blitz was a period between September 1940 and ... bombers were airfields and Aircraft manufacturing plants of which Bristol had one of the largest at Filton, and my father worked there as ...

The Blitz came to Bristol at about 6 pm on Sunday, November 24, 1940. Over the next six hours, 148 bombers dropped over 12,000 incendiaries and 1,540 tonnes of high explosives, causing dozens of ...

Bristol suffered heavily from Luftwaffe bombing during the Second World War – the Bristol Blitz of November 1940 to April 1941 saw 77 air raids raining over one megaton of explosives and ...

Ms Rigg was stationed in at Avonmouth's docks, and witnessed the worst days of the Bristol Blitz. "We had a dreadful raid where they took the centre of Bristol out. "I was standing in the garden ...