St Mary's Redcliffe, BS1
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St Mary's Redcliffe, BS1
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 28 Jul 2012
This metal girder embedded in the grassed-over churchyard was the result of a bomb exploding on nearby Redcliffe Hill on 11th April 1944. The force of the explosion caused this section of tram line to be hurled up into the air and projected over the houses in Colston Parade, a road that runs along one side of the churchyard, and to come to rest in this spot. A nearby plaque declares that a decision was made to leave it where it fell as a reminder of how the church could so easily have been destroyed had the bomb had landed here.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.447841
Longitude
-2.589789