Synopsis
Guinea street was targeted in the Bristol Blitz, due to its close proximity to the docks.
- Programme: A House Through Time
- Series: 3
- Episode: 4
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2020
- History | World War II, 1939-45 | Depression, War and Recovery, 1930-1951 | Life during wartime
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