be employed in the automotive industry. One tragic accident happened in September 1939 when Trevor Thomas, a six year old boy, died after receiving fatal injuries when a practice bomb fell from an RAF plane and went through the roof of the family's home. The family lived at 97 Stanway Road and the boy was in bed when the accident happened. His brother was in the same bedroom but survived unharmed. The incident was reported widely in the UK press. However it would appear that most of the reports had a major error as they gave the boy's name as Trevor Love with his parents being Frederick and Margaret. In fact he was Trevor Thomas and he and his brother David were evacuees from London. Both were sleeping in one bedroom, the bomb crashed into their bed and then into the living room and finally embedded in the foundations of the house. Much of the furniture in the living room was destroyed but the overall structure of the house remained intact. A report in the Evening Despatch 25 September 1939 quoted a Mr K Bishop who lived nearby as saying that first he heard whistling, then a dull thud and saw smoke rising. He went to the scene but air raid wardens and auxiliary firemen were already there. The Love family had to move out while the house was repaired but after their return Mr and Mrs Love continued to live in the house until their deaths in 1975 and 2001 respectively. In 1958 work started on the Eastern Bypass—a plan had been under discussion for 30 years and when Risinghurst was built, a gap was left between it and Headington Quarry so that a road could be built. This dual carriageway cut off Risinghurst from Headington Quarry. The latter, until then, had been seen as part of the same district by the residents. Now Risinghurst was very much an island with two major trunk roads running along two sides and open countryside along the rest. In 1968 the turn into Risinghurst from the dual carriageway was blocked off causing anger among residents and letters to the local press such as this: Does the Oxford City Corporation really think that by closing the Risinghurst turn for cars, mopeds etc it will reduce accident figures for that stretch of road. In my view, cyclists and moped riders returning from the factories