On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:56:20 -0000, liverpud <liverpud-49@rogers.com> wrote: > St. Paul's Church, Bedminster > This stone was blessed by the Lord Bishop of Bristol after > being laid by Canon W. Kingsley Martin Encumbent of this church when it > was destroyed by enemy action on Good Friday 1941.(11 April 1941) The Sixth Blitz of Bristol extended over Friday 11th and Saturday 12th April, 1941 and hundreds of people were sheltering in the crypt at St. Paul's, in Southville, Bedminster on that Good Friday night. Miraculously they survived. An eye-witness account of that April night, when incendiary bombs burnt down St. Paul's, leaving just the four walls standing, is on the following web page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2008/03/27/st_pauls_feature.shtml The web page is entitled 'Risen from the ashes' because, years later, St. Paul's, Bedminster was restored. -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com