Trafford Park
Miss E Price. Portrait from the 1990 "Bridging The Years" exhibition. |
Miss E Price - BombsBorn 1920s Salford. Interviewed 1989 - T067  Click here to listen to this extract in RealAudio format.Q: Do you remember much bomb damage in Trafford Park ? I remember there was a station, the electricity station, opposite the Dynamo, near the canteen. There was one of those bombs that came down on a parachute, a land mine, and that landed alongside the power station, you know; everybody thrilled to bits ... I don't think it went off as far as I know. Whether it was seen to, I don't know, but I know an awful lot of people were trying to pinch pieces of the parachute. Wonderful isn't it? [Souvenirs], yes, and of course it was silk, they tell me, but I don't remember. I never got a bit. But that's the only damage that I can remember. Metrovick's did get some damage, yes, and occasionally you found it rather difficult to get home at night, because there was buses and things all in a mess and you had to walk home ... But apart from that, you still went on, even though you'd been up all night. |
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