Clydebank blitz

Seen this 75 yrs today wouldn't have like to have been in Clydebank they 2 days 400 Luftwaffe dropped over 1000 bombs .528 killed .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clydebank_Blitz
The Clydebank Blitz (Part One)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXmiE5YUUn8

 

Watched a couple of these, will watch the rest later.

Fascinating and sad at the same time.

 

My Family was in Drumchapel at the time.

 

Your family from Old Drumchapel i take it?

Both my parents came from Knightswood/Temple and we moved to Drumchapel in the early 60s.

Funnily enough i was just talking to my old man yesterday about him having pet rabbits during the war, and he said he kept them in a hutch which was atop of their air raid shelter! It was just when he mentioned the 'air raid shelter' it dawns on you they actually were bombed!!!

 

My Grandad worked in Singers for years after the war. Didn't know it was a munitions factory and was targeted by the Germans.

 

Aye mate. Old Drumchapel... then Tallant Terrace, then Southdeen, then Rozelle then Tallant Road, then Kinfauns lol.

Oh, and Carolside. :smiley-laughing002:

 

If it happened today it would improve the place

 

:smiley-laughing002:

 

Ooft, quite a history there! We were up the other side, at Halgreen then Monymusk!

 

I remember when I was a kid (in the sixties) still being able to climb around the old bombed out tenements. There was an old cinema at the bottom of Whitecrook Street, on Glasgow Road that had been hit as well – it was a playground for us. The white houses being rebuilt up in Radnor and Parkhall.

A few years back I was in Budapest when some cheeky old c*nt started to give me a bit of grief for ‘us’ Brits bombing his neighbourhood during the war. He got a brief potted history of the Clydebank Blitz. He looked quite shell-shocked when I finished.

 

It would never have happened if it wasn't for those at Celtic Park leaving the floodlights on to guide the Germans.

 

thats why ze germans never bombed ze east end......the * lights of auld parkheid guided them away,mon the * floodlights

 

still cant believe this happened feels like yesterday r.i.p to all of them

so sad

 

Did many Germans get shot down?

 

What age are you? You don't come across as someone who remembers the blitz.

I smell *

 

Aye, he's obviously a good 60 years older than I had him pegged at.

 

was a bit of sarcasm mate. Do you have facebook ? if so you have probably seen people post about dead people from the 30s etc saying r.i.p great granny cant believe thats 67 years today like they * knew them

 

I must be looking at a different Facebook

 

yes considering we are different people we will have different facebooks

 

Take a bit of advice - hold off on pressing the send button and just let people think you're a * rather than spouting off and just confirming it.

Some of us did know innocent people who were affected by the blitz.