StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Yate

Re-building Newmans in 1941, the air-raid damage was extensive. The items in the foreground are the cast iron bases for various machines (probably lathes). Scan of a photograph in my late father's papers

Newman's at Yate

Result of one of the air raids (27th February / 7th March 1941). CAS tells an anecdote that one of the larger machines, weighing "tons" was ripped off the base plinth and dumped into a bomb crater. Image was with my late father's papers

Bomb damage to one of the machine shops. Another anecdote from CAS was that during one raid, a bomb skittered along the floor and came to rest up against one of the lathes. There was a worry that it might have had a time delay* on the fuse, and the UXB people were very busy. (* It didn't, it had been dropped from too low an altitude and that's why it was a "dud").

CAS outside 33 Moorland Road, Yate. Visited on the way home from Salisbury This bungalow was bought new, directly from the builder, not long before (?) marriage, it was certainly the first marital home. His parents and other members of his family lived across the road. Initially, CAS worked fairly locally and then commuted by train to Gloucester and Bristol for work and "night school".

The casualty lists from the two main air raids on the Yate factory of Parnall Aircraft. There was a lot of damage to the machine shops. Shortly after the March raid most of the work was transferred to "Magnol Products" a nearby shadow factory, most of which was in a mine for protection. My grandfather, father and one uncle worked at Magnol, although later in WW2 my father and uncle were employed by Newmans, who were next door to Parnall's establishment in Yate.

ID card. Mr Hugh Shields worked with CAS in Newman's Tool Room during WW2. He was also a close neighbour in Moorland Road.