Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

Remembering the Blitz bombing in Grangetown, Cardiff 80 years ago blitzexperience.co.uk/project-rz4dl Grangetown, Cardiff Joined December 2020

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Grangetown War Project @GrangetownWWI

4 years ago

Gunner George Conway, 43, died #WW2 #OnThisDay 1941, with Royal Artillery, 77 HAA Regiment, believed to be on anti-aircraft duties during Blitz, possibly northern England. Lived in Bromfield St with wife Frances & three children. Formerly of Cathays. Buried at Cathays Cemetery.

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Grangetown War Project @GrangetownWWI

4 years ago

The body of Mary Noble, 42, recovered from site of Blitz bombing on corner of Ferry Rd, #WW2 #OnThisDay 1941, nearly four months before. Her son also killed but daughter rescued.

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Grangetown War Project @GrangetownWWI

5 years ago

William Morgan, 69, a fruit seller from Court Road, Grangetown, died in St David's hospital on 1 March 1941, two months after being badly injured in the #Cardiff #Blitz while in Neville Street, Riverside on the night of 2/3 January. The widower was buried in Cathays Cemetery.

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

Imagine 53 of these exploding in one night, not controlled or people at a safe distance, and many more bombs dropped besides. #CardiffBlitz

NPAS South West Region @NPASSouthWest

5 years ago

Imagine 53 of these exploding in one night, not controlled or people at a safe distance, and many more bombs dropped besides. #CardiffBlitz

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Grangetown War Project @GrangetownWWI

5 years ago

Alfred Townsend, 66, of 23 Knole Street, Grangetown, died of injuries 15 days after @BlitzGrangetown. Injured 2 Jan 1941, in Forrest Street. Left a widow Jessie and two sons. Brought up in Splott, worked as railway wagon repairer. #WW2 #80years

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Glamorgan Archives @GlamArchives

5 years ago

If you missed this on Saturday you can still catch up with the amazing work produced by the artists and young people as part of the #NTBE project commemorating 80 years since the #Grangetown Blitz. Take a look blitzexperience.co.uk

Art Shell @_Art_Shell_

5 years ago

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

3 Jan 1941: Firemen still working, boy rescued from rubble in Riverside as children played, search for remains + effects at Hollymans, plea for blood donors, more die in hospital, unexploded bomb in Bromsgrove St, blood runs in the gutter in Ferry Rd

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Grangedog @grangedog_rosie

5 years ago

Thankyou @BlitzGrangetown for the stories and history tonight - interesting and heartbreaking blitzexperience.co.uk

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

Across Cardiff, there were 165 deaths and 427 injuries. Of the seriously wounded, 21 were children. On top of thousands of fire bombs, between 95 and 100 high explosive bombs and parachute mines were dropped. *We remember - and we continue to work for a peaceful world.*

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

Look out for a forthcoming book on Cardiff and The Blitz, by Steve Duffy (Wordcatcher Publishing), including many of these themes and tonight's stories in depth, along with what happened 1940-1943 in other areas. Dedicated to extraordinary, unsung efforts of many ordinary people.

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

Look around Grangetown, like here in Jubilee St, and other parts of Cardiff and you can see how the Blitz redrew the lines, where parts of Victorian terrace once where.

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Art Shell @_Art_Shell_

5 years ago

Some writing for the #NTBE project by Anushiye Yarnell blitzexperience.co.uk/writing #blitz #Cardiff

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

There was also an undoubted mental toll, grief and stress. Our research uncovered several suicides in Cardiff, unreported. The brave policeman who risked his life in the Ferry Rd rubble, died young, deeply traumatised. "All he did was wander around in a daze," said his widow.

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

There were around 70 deaths in Grangetown alone. Hundreds of homes, like this one in Avondale Crescent, were damaged. Neighbouring districts in Butetown, Riverside, as well as Canton and Roath also suffered casualties before last bomb fell at 04.50.

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

There was extensive damage to Llandough hospital too. The youngest Grangetown casualty was a patient there, three-month-old baby Peter Gillman, of 13 Corporation Road. His death certificate gives no more details, other than it was "as a result of war operations"

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

Charlie Ayland, 58, died of a fractured skull after 43 Pentrebane St was bombed. In the backyard next door, while visiting his in-laws, Len Roodhouse, 31, was killed. His wife was expecting their first baby

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

Nearby, fruit and potato salesman Lloyd Roberts, 29, was killed at 60 Paget Street. He was at the home of neighbour Francis Gregan, 61, who appears to have survived.

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

Kathleen Morgan, 27, died at home when a bomb damaged 52 Paget Street, a corner shop and off licence, she ran while her husband was with the RAF. Her toddler daughter Mary was with her at the time but survived.

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

Wartime censorship meant there was very little detail of what happened and where. The next morning's paper did not even name Cardiff. The days and weeks ahead would see more information released but little of the amazing courage shown by ordinary people, who saved many lives.

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Blitz Grangetown @BlitzGrangetown

5 years ago

David Jones, 84, a retired cafe manager, his wife Emma and three daughters, aged 47, 48, and 50 all died at No 10 Clydach St. Another neighbour died with Carrie and Thomas Lyons at No 8, the parents of Dillon. The rescue party was based nearby at the old YMCA, now the mosque.