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Even before people started walking around staring at smartphones instead of their surroundings, few would have noticed this curious door along Bristol High Street. Most pedestrians step around the ...
While the so-called ‘Blitz Spirit' has latterly been painted as a myth, aerial attacks by the Luftwaffe on the UK's towns and cities DID bring Britons together in unforeseen ...
Daniel Wales and Charles Hague-Jones discuss Bristol City’s play-off loss.
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 ...
The reality is that the door leads to medieval vaults, which managed to survive wartime bombing during the Bristol Blitz. It is thought that the cellars were built during the 1300s or 1400s ...
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 ...
This research, courtesy of the University of Bristol, revealed that fussy eaters no longer avoided meat, fish or fruit when ...
Barrow-in-Furness has crumbled since the end of the Cold War. Will growing military threats revive the nuclear ...
Indeed, Bristol City have lost eight of their last ... Up front, Joel Piroe ended a nine-match goalless streak with his four-goal blitz of Stoke, taking him top of the Championship's Golden ...
The Luftwaffe’s attacks on Bristol were particularly devastating ... and ‘nasty’ in almost the same breath. The Blitz is often remembered in mythical terms: a story of Britons resolute ...