MEMBERS of Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society (CHIS) held their Remembrance Sunday service in the graveyard of a church that was bombed during the Bristol Blitz of the second World War.
St Andrew’s Parish Church which stood at the top of Clifton Hill was bombed on 24 November 1940. The ruins were eventually demolished in 1956 but the graveyard survives.
The CHIS service was conducted by Father Cavan McElligott, of Clifton Cathedral, who also led the singing of the hymn O God Our help In Ages Past. A two-minute silence was held and a wreath of poppies laid on the war memorial in the graveyard.
Some CHIS members wore their own or family medals.
The site of St Andrew’s Church is marked by an inscribed stone set in what is now a grass lawn.