Unexploded bomb made huge crater by Mrs Falcon (From Penarth Times)

Unexploded bomb made huge crater by Mrs Falcon

WHERE High Street meets Harbour View Road, an unexploded bomb made a huge crater in the road. My aunt was evacuated to Abergavenny until it was safe to return.

Incendiary bombs were dropped on Plassey Square Rec by mistake instead of Cardiff Docks. One fell on Holy Nativity Church and set it alight.

I remember standing in the middle looking up to the sky; the roof was gone. We thought it was great fun scouring the roads for shrapnel.

There was a burning tip where High View Road began.

The GIs would tip their unwanted food items there, no labels on them, and we kids would have great fun clambering over the hot ash to retrieve them, never knowing what we had. Some contained peaches.

My father was a coal trimmer and we used tallow candles to light our Anderson Shelter. How he managed to bring them home, and the odd banana and orange I'll never know because they were searched before they were allowed to leave the Docks (spoils of war).

I remember the big grey barrage balloon in the Plassey Square Rec.

I lived there and one day it broke its moorings and smacked up against our window. There was great panic.

These are just a few things I remember of the 1930s and 40s. I was 12 when the war ended.