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WLA  WW2

My mother's name was Gladys Letton, she lived in Eden Grove, Horfield, she was in the WLA. Is there anyone out there that would remember her?? A great web site, thanks for any help. Carol.
A memory of Bristol contributed by carol underwood

Lost Places

My great-grandparents lived in a place called Western Square, Clifton. Anyone have any memories of this place?? Their name was Simms. I was told that there was a pub and a sweet shop there and maybe only 6 large houses, any help please. Thankyou, Carol.
A memory of Bristol contributed by carol underwood

Templemeads Station

My father was working on Templemeads Station around the time it was bombed, I have the feeling it was a Saturday night in the summer of 1942.  I was about four years old and we were lodging in a house by the Avon with a cellar and several storeys as my mother had decided that Bristol was safer than London.
 Unfortunately the raids started almost as soon as we arrived.  We had to  spend our nights in the Anderson shelter in the garden but my father decided we would be safer at the railway station with him where he was moving troop trains at night.(!).  Fortunately as it later happened he was injured on the line the night before the ...read more here
A memory of Bristol contributed by Anne Cross

Lost places of Bristol

Can anyone help me with some 'lost places' in Bristol?
I'm trying to locate where Navarino Place was...and also St-Augustine-the-Less church.
My Gtx3 grandfather died at no.6 Navarino Place in 1857 and many members of my family were christened/married at the above church. I'm trying to piece together their lives and what it would have been like for them working in Bristol at that time.
A memory of Bristol contributed by Kate Spurrier