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Civic Trust News Gloucester Civic Trust Ltd 1939-1945 Reg Discover Gloucester at your own pace... ‘Eavesdrop on History’ Audio Trails available from St Michael’s Tower and the Tourist Information Centre Hire the audio trails to discover Gloucester's architectural gems and uncover its rich heritage. Combined with a fascinating audio experience, they recreate the atmosphere of a bygone era! Memories of Home life in Wartime Gloucester Civic Trust News Gloucester Civic Trust Ltd 1939-1945 Reg. Charity No. 264719 Registered Charity No. 264719 The ‘phoney war’ lasted for about a year, giving paper which caught the split nibs which we sirens were situated on top of high buildings, www.gloucestercivictrust.org.uk time for the distribution of ration books and were obliged to use and caused the ink to where fire watchers spent their nights, and gas masks. The later were fitted (vaguely) to spurt across the paper and woe betide a child their whine made each heart beat faster. Email [email protected] the individual and were supplied in cardboard who neglected to write on every single line The varying sound of the ‘all clear’ was very boxes with a string carrying loop. Everyone or make their writing inordinately large. Text welcome. Spring 2013 was expected to carry their gas mask at all books could not be replaced, necessitating No. 124 times. In schools, a weekly session was held, sharing a book between two, three or even Gloucester did not have many direct enemy when classes donned gas masks for a lesson. four children. raids;Start the worst damage your seemed to be discovery of Great amusement was caused by the (rude) from planes which had followed the River noises caused by strongly blowing out. For private homes, indoor shelters were Severn, in the moonlight, towards Coventry issued - great heavy metal ‘cages’ with chain (which was largely demolished) and dropped Aircraft Murals to be Restored and Relocated Dug-out shelters were made in back gardens link bases which took up the best part of a living excesshistoric bombs on our city on their way Gloucester! home. and above ground strong, usually concrete room, while women plastered the windows Church bells were silent, as their chimes structures were reinforced with sand bags. The with strips of tape which was supposed to were reserved for notification of an invasion. At long last the much neglected aircraft in this year’s annual report to the Trust’s One of the groups which responded was the dug-outs in Calton Road had seats abounding stop shards of glass flying in raids. Silver, elephantine barrage balloons floated murals in the city’s Jubilee Garden are to AGM. In order to give the issue prominence museum which offered to repair and display in splinters. Eric Keys took his woodwork Supported by above the outskirts of towns, their securing go to a new and caring home at the recently I fronted a piece in the Citizen and stressed the murals outside their new premises. Since class, from Linden Road School, armed with It was recommended that each person should wires supposedly to deter enemy planes from launched Jet Age Museum at Staverton that even if money could be found for their money was obviously tight it was suggested sandpaper, to remedy the situation. wear an identity bracelet, bearing their name, flying low and anti-aircraft guns were placed Airport.THE Both the Trust and Gloucester repair and refurbishment it was a waste to the murals should go there and be erected address and registration number, to make at strategic sites, especially around the south Historic Buildings had expressed concern do either if they were to be returned to their as and when they were refurbished. If we were on our way to or from school, we possible the identification of injured or dead. SUMMERFIELD coast. about the murals’ deteriorating condition - present ‘home’ and once again be the target were instructed that, in case of an air-raid, (I still have mine - in silver.) CHARITABLE TRUST a fact also highlighted by David Champion of mindless vandals. It was then that an anonymous fairy we were to seek shelter in the nearest house. A raid which caused particular distress was on godmother appeared and offered to foot One afternoon, hearing the siren as we were Iron railings were ripped out and saucepans a factory in Yate where Auntie Doris worked the cost of their removal from the Jubilee going down Tuffley Avenue, a gracious lady donated to enable armaments and planes as a W.V.S assistant, making meals for the Garden, for their repair and refurbishment invited about six of us in, gave us biscuits and to be made. The WW1 tank in the Park workers who had been engaged on making and for their re-erection at the museum. This lemonade and found her grown sons’ railway disappeared, its metal used to fight again. The domestic appliances before the war and generous offer has now been enshrined in a for us to play with. Wagon Works, in Bristol Road was converted which was now converted to the manufacture legal agreement and the murals are to have to the production of arms, including tanks of munitions. A German man, who had lived a new and more caring home at Staverton What a disappointment when the ‘all clear’ which, completely, churned up the roads with in England for very many years, worked with where - outside - they will complement the sounded! For ages after that, we hung about their tracks as they made their way south. them but disappeared when war was declared. many aviation exhibits inside. that house on our way home, each longing It emerged that he was the pilot of the plane for the siren to go again, but it never obliged Anyone owning a stirrup pump, which could which flew twice over Yate and strafed the Our thanks to all who made this possible. at our desired time. However, after a night- be used to put out incendiary bombs, painted workers as they finished their shifts, causing time raid, we were allowed to arrive at school a large SP on the front of their house or an L many deaths and injuries. It was a shock to half an hour later than usual, leaving some for a ladder, while scoops, on long handles, find that loyalty to one’s fatherland superseded John Lovell, of the cheekier boys too drift in late on other were designed to enable an incendiary bomb that to one’s workmates. Company Secretary mornings and trying, unsuccessfully to look to be removed. innocent, swear that they had heard the siren Bombing caused a lot of homelessness. The in the night. After a genuine raid, when the Air Raid Wardens, recruited from men too old local W.I. had taken up the cause of Polish local guns had blazed, there was a scramble to be called up or who were in work essential refugees who had managed to escape and for pieces of shrapnel and these became to the war effort paraded the streets, with strict were occupying a camp near Cirencester, substitutes for cigarette cards and other words for anyone allowing a light to show but soon people from our own towns were in collectables which had disappeared. beyond their black-out curtains. They were desperate need of accommodation. They were to sound claxons in the event of gas attacks billeted on those who had houses deemed big Paper became very scarce and school and manned the sirens which announced enough to take them, while really large houses exercise books were filled with off white, hairy the imminent arrival of enemy planes. These or other buildings were commandeered for hospitals, recovery centres, for the Armed Forces or for other agencies active in times of Images from the Tower’s Past war. Workers were shipped round the country to wherever they were needed; we had two The far left image was found by Tower young women, one Irish and one from the volunteers during their research North of England, living with us for a while, into the history of St. Michael’s though they were forbidden from telling us why Church. Dated about 1520 it they were here. Eric and Ette Keys gave up shows The High Cross and St. half their house to a Jewish family who were Michael’s Church. It was found pitifully touched to be given a welcome after amongst Rev. Herbert Braithwaite’s fleeing for their lives. papers. Rev. Braithwaite was Rector of St. Michael’s from 1906 to 1936. Una Dowding The second image shows the Cross that used to be on top of St. Michael’s Church. It is now at Maisemore First part of a two part article Bridge where it was moved to when continued in the the main body of the church was next issue of Civic News ➧ The pictures show the badly vandalised and demolished in 1956. damaged murals in the Jubilee Garden. Information and articles are always appreciated. Please contact Terry Brooks, 44 Wheatway, Abbeydale, Gloucester GL4 5ER Tel: 01452 411827 or e-mail [email protected]. 8 1 Museum Grant NewsNews fromfrom thethe DocksDocks Approved Two Rudhall Bells Return to the City The Gloucester Waterways Museum has Thanks to the Civic Trust been given a Stage1 grant of £60,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to help prepare a Stage 2 bid for a grant of almost £1 million. Two Rudhall bells which were cast in the frames designed by Trust member David The project includes developing displays Rudhall Bell Foundry in Gloucester in the early Champion which were then constructed by about the rivers and canals between the years of the 18th century returned to the city Adams French and Hare Lane Engineering.
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