We have had this story before but it's one of our family's legends.
During the war they were living at the bottom of Tyning hill Radstock
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by the railway line. Apparently according to my Dad the German planes used to follow the moonlight glinting on the railway lines on their way to Bristol. One night they got bombed. It was an incendiary bomb known to come from 'Göring's Bread Baskets' a large device that would send out little bombs. It landed in the landing and before it exploded my Uncle Cliff scooped it up in his sports coat and threw it out the window where it exploded safely. Apparently Lord Haw Haw mentioned it on his radio bulletin that night. 'Woods South of Bath ablaze' or something like that. My Dad was just a boy but got a cut from the broken glass. Read about the Bristol Blitz here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Blitz
