On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:42:29 -0000, Susan Moziar <smoziar@rogers.com> wrote: > Thanks for the link, Josephine. I hadn't seen it. That would make sense > because we lived in Chipping Sodbury during the war. In 1943, we lived > in the Rectory in Chipping Sodbury. I remember an air raid and sitting > in the living room with curtains drawn, in the darkness. As I've > posted before, this experience was one of my earliest recollections. I > can still hear the wail of the sirens in my head. Hi Susan, I must have passed Parnall's at Yate around 2,750 times on journeys to and from school, but I never thought about what was made there or in the Newman's factory, nearby. Nowadays, we can put fingers to keyboard and find out such things. Here's a web page, on the Yate Heritage Centre web site, about factories in Yate, which may be of interest: http://www.yateheritage.co.uk/history-of-yate/the-factory-age.htm It includes a small section on 'The Blitz comes to Yate!'. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com