Edward told his story on the BBC Wales Bus. The following is a transcription based on the interview.

During the Second World War I remember a bomb on the 17th March 1942. I'd been on duty, fire service, I'd got home, gone to bed at twenty-to-two in the morning, a direct hit came down next door but one.

When I went down there was a big hole there. There were seven lives underneath. Out of the seven lives, we had three out breathing and the others passed on. One of the ones breathing is now well-known to Wales, the singer, Ivor Emmanuel.

I knew Ivor well, he's about 12 years younger than me. He was coming into our house as if he was going to his own house, with my brother, they were the same age, a matter of a month or two.

We had him out, his brother out and his uncle out. His grandfather, his sister, his mother and father they died. What we can gather happened is that the Jersey Marine anti-aircraft gun had hit the German plane and then trying to go home they dropped his load of bombs. But we gather after all, that plane came down in Christchurch, Cardiff. That's what we were told, that he came down in Christchurch, Cardiff.

Well now the only other thing I can remember afterwards, I was 100 yards away and there was an officer, a pilot, standing there in Pontrhydyfen and he was the one that had been chasing the German. He'd come to apologise, he was upset with what had happened. But he'd done what he had to do. He had to do his duty.

Before and after the War I worked at Garth Colliery, Ton Mawr and was part time in the Fire Service. We went down to Swansea often and in the blitz. I went down to be in charge of the big ladder, down in the Drill Hall. There were a lot of lives lost, there was a tremendous amount of fire there.

After the three days blitz, the council was trying to putting the roads right so the traffic could go through. I saw a tremendous amount of bomb damage, the place was flat, flat as a pancake and the Cathedral now, a basket of incendiary bombs went into her. We had equipment, but not the standard of today, the old standard, time marches on.