Book reveals battle-scarred Bridgnorth's wartime story

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By Toby NealBridgnorthFeaturesPublished: May 24, 2023Last Updated: May 24, 2023Comments

For Hitler's war machine, Bridgnorth was truly a town on the map.

Evacuee children arriving at Bridgnorth railway station in September 1939.

And now local historian and author Clive Gwilt has told the story of the town's wartime experience, from the Blitz to the atomic bomb, and from the arrival of evacuees to its role in training hordes of new recruits for the RAF.

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