It was the night of the Blitz, 2 January 1941 and the night before the RAF bomber Bremen and this was supposed to be a revenge attack. All down Clive Street and Ferry Road they had concrete air raid Shelters on grass verges and a couple of houses had concrete shelters that people could run into. Well in Clarence Hardware which was Hollermans bakers The hardware shop in Corporation road, well the bakery went in to Stockland Street There was a big cellar with an opening in the road where they used to put the flour down it was made into a reinforced shelter. I was speaking to this lady who's Dad was one of the air raid wardens and on the night of the raid. When there was going to be a raid the plains would show up on a signal, they would phone the Air raid Wardens who would then raise the alarm. Well apparently this night he didn't get the signal in time. When he heard he just said to his wife quick go and get the children he went up the street and anyone that he saw he said quick go down into Hollermans because it had been strengthened to be a public shelter. Men coming home from work - because it was about 6.30- 7 in the evening. So men just left their bikes on the street and went down the shelter, everyone was told to go down there.
We had a chap come to one our meetings who was a delivery boy for the bakery- he would have been 14 at the time. When he got back from doing his rounds his boss said I think you had better go home tonight it looks like it is going to be a bad one and your Mam and Dad will be worried about you. Well not long after the sirens sounded a land mine was dropped on the building. Apparently it went through a ventilation shaft and the whole building just blew up and collapsed. We believe there was 36 or 37 people there but nobody knows for sure some people were identified because they found bits of their bike.
This bloke John said the next morning at 8 am he was riding his bike to work down corporation road and all he could see were the backs of houses and this huge pile of rubble. It was bitterly cold that night and where they had sprayed the fire it was like icing on a cake, it had all iced over. Anyway he went around the back and the delivery horse was still standing.

Grangetown History Society has now placed a plaque on the bakery they also organised a remembrance service which about 50 people came to.