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• Referral from February 6, 2015
  

  Lesley B. asked:

  MORE REQUESTS! Please check search box under cover photo before submitting your request, as we have thousands of photos of Bristol :) 1. Does anyone have any pics of Seymour road Easton before the clinic was built? - Lorraine Anne Hatcher 2. Would anyone have a photograph of the houses knocked down opposite St Agnes church. I was born in 266. It was just a long from Eldon road with the hair salon on the corner , i recall my mother telling me. - Cathy Gibbens 3. Has anyone got any of avonmouth and lawance Weston - Peter Vincent 4. Back in the 70's I worked with an older guy who was originally a painter and decorator and he told me that during the war (WW2) he was one of many that were employed to paint the roofs and runways at Filton so as to camouflage them and make them look like a quiet countryside with a river (runway) running thro' it. It seemed to have done the trick because the German Luftwaffe left Filton Aerodrome alone. Can anyone else confirm this and possibly throw more light on it.. Al - Alec Strachan 5. Does anyone have any photos and information about Mortimer House Maternity Hospital in Clifton? I was born there and cannot find any info or pictures of it. Thanks - Maria Vickery 6. Can anyone help? When did the evening post go from broadsheet to normal size? - Harry Flanagan

  

  Trevor S. replied:

  Reply to the request about bombs on the airfield, it certainly was not left alone, on the 25 th September 1940 several squadrons of Luftwaff bombers created havoc around the lunch period. Many lives were lost. You can read about it on the aviationarchive.org.uk website. Go to stories and select air attact airfield. We did not fair well that day. Another raid by a sneak attack severely damaged the aviation plant at Yate, also in stories.

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