On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:52:14 +0100, Polly Rubery <[email protected]> wrote: > There were still plenty of large and small (such as missing houses along > the terraces in roadssuch as Newfoundland Street) bombsites when I was > still going to school in Bristol in the firstpart of 1968. I know that > by the end of the 1970s I hardly recognised a lot of the City Centrewhen > I had cause to visit. Hi Polly, I can see how those bomb sites would have been very familiar to you on your daily run into town on the 84 bus. There's a 1941 photograph of bomb damage in Newfoundland Road here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2050158026/in/set-72157603190450413 My journeys to town were less frequent than yours and in the 1970s and 1980s involved lots of trips to Gardiner Haskins on Broad Plain, which had once been the soap works where my grandfather worked. We also frequented Park Street, where we attended an optician's which closed around 1986/1987. I had attended this optician's since 1960, but had never realized, until around a decade or ago, that Park Street had suffered bomb damage. There's a photograph of some of the bomb damage in Park Street here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/2050367280 The caption notes how the houses in Park Street were rebuilt in the 1950s, which explains why I didn't know about the bomb damage as Park Street wasn't on my beaten track as early as that. Josephine