Worle at War
Bomb being removed - Cherrywood Road Area
Hill Road East
Bomb Damage
Greenwood Road
Worle did not escape being bombed.
Hill Road East, Ebdon Road, Greenwood Road and the High Street were all hit.
Air Raid Wardens of Worle - Photograph taken outside the back of the Woodspring Pub - 1940.
Gas Mask Fitting was also at the pub along with a srap metal dump.
The Air Raid Siren was on top of the roof at St Martins School Spring Hill.
Local ladies manned the ARPs phones day and night at the school.
Hillend at the time was waste land and the army would drive lorries up there with search lights.
Sunday June 28th 1942
East Lynch Ebdon Road was destroyed by a German Bomb - Charles Dury was Killed.
Not all those lost in conflict are mentioned on Worle Memorial,
William Henry Loud - Born in Worle in 1894, his family were living in South Wales by 1901. His parents Robert and Helen (Ellen) were also born in Worle. Henry was a sinker in the coal mines.
In 1914 he joined the Glamorgan Constabulary.
He was killed in action on the 10th July 1916 on an attack of Mametz Wood in France.
It looks like at lot of his family moved back to Worle and Weston.
William Frederick Crimmin - 1879 to 1941
He died when his ship Anglo-Perurian was attacked by a u-boat on 23rd Feburary 1941. He is rembered on Tower Hill Memorial London.
His wife was A M Crimmin of Worle.
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