Ah Sheffiels post the blitz. I also remember the bomb sites, including Marples corner and the wasteland down rhe Moor, being a feature of the landscape during the 50s.

Throughout the war my grandfather was a drop stamper at Cravens steelworks in Darnall on the east side of Sheffield. My memory is that he said he was working on merlin crankshafts.

As was usual in those days the family lived near the factory in Bramham Road and I can remember in the early 50s playing in the shelter dug in the back yard .

My uncle, who would have been about 13 in 1940, had a collection of bits of shrapnel and incediary/bomb fragments that he collected over the period. That colllection survived until sometime in the 50s.

I’ve got somewhere a map of Sheffield (publiished in the 60s?) that shows where the bombs fell. It was indeed far from precision bombing of the steel industry.

Regards

Chris