Remember the Bombing of the Co-Op in Nottingham.
We lived on Hartford Street (just behind the London Road infant School) Pinderhouse Road. Granma Flo Astill (Nee Gilbert) B.12 May 1879 with Husband Jim Astill B.13 Apr 1879 lived at No.27, Aunty May Astill B.23 March 1909 my dad’s sister with husband Charles Baines B.9 Oct 1905 lived at 29, My dad Bernard Astill B.2 Jan 1908 and his wife Ethel (Nee Carnell) B.21 Nov 1905 lived at 31, Next door were Sid and Nelly Thorpe. The other side of gran lived Minny Barwell widow.
On the night of 8th May 1941 about 10 am the sirens went Dad being in the
