The prefabs went up because other places had been knocked down. Half a million houses were flattened between July 1940 and March 1945 and a further quarter of a million badly damaged. Twiverton got off lightly. (Although the twenty-seven people who were killed in the bombing
might not agree). It could have been worse: the Railway Inn and the parochial school were hit, but no one was inside at the time.
Ten miles to the west of the prefabs is the city of Bristol. This was a big target for Adolf Schicklgruber's bombers and over fourteen hundred people died. Three miles to the east of our prefabs is the city of Bath. Bombing Bath formed part of the Baedecker raids on Britain's historic cities. The RAF bombed Lubeck on March 28th and March 29th, and Bath was hit in 'revenge'. The attacks on Bath on April 25th and 26th 1942 left four hundred and seventeen people dead. (The pilots based at near-by RAF Colerne were away on week-end leave at the time!) The Nazis felt jubilant when they were flattening cities like Warsaw and perfecting plans to deport millions to gas chambers. But when bombs started to fall on Germany's cities they got quite upset.
My parents had a close shave in Bristol. One night my mum was too tired to go to the air raid shelter. It received a direct hit and the couple who lived next door were killed. They then moved to Bath and arrived just in time for the bombing there. The bombs missed them. (Although, in my mum's case, the polio germs did not.)