My Grandfather was there carrying out bomb disposal and got one of his men to take photographs to record the awful devastation so that people would know in the future what happened. However all the photographs disappeared when they went in for developing! He remembers clambering over the ruins in Dalmuir looking for a very upset elderly lady's canary previously saying to the lady that he was sorry the whole street was flattened and there was very little chance of it surviving. On top of the tenement rubble he turned round to head back to her and he heard a cheep among the rubble. He looked over and saw a bit of a mangled cage sticking out of the rubble. He lifted the bricks and was amazed to find the canary still alive! The lady's face lit up on his return and was there the next morning with a table and her friends with pots of teas for the bomb disposal squad and every morning that they were working there on bomb disposal!
I have been search for age to find WW2 video footage of the clydeside blizts, I can't find any anywhere, no newsreels or nothing, there must be some somewhere, Glasgow was heavily bombed during the second world war but all I was taught in history class was about the London Blitz's, so am trying to find more out about my Glasweign history.
That's because the only place that gets mentioned outside the London blitz is Coventry......yet the blitz on clydbank was much heavier and much more deaths as it was 2 nights where Coventry was one night.....900 people died in Belfast...in their blitz ....that never gets mentioned either.....its an English thing......
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My Grandfather was there carrying out bomb disposal and got one of his men to take photographs to record the awful devastation so that people would know in the future what happened. However all the photographs disappeared when they went in for developing! He remembers clambering over the ruins in Dalmuir looking for a very upset elderly lady's canary previously saying to the lady that he was sorry the whole street was flattened and there was very little chance of it surviving. On top of the tenement rubble he turned round to head back to her and he heard a cheep among the rubble. He looked over and saw a bit of a mangled cage sticking out of the rubble. He lifted the bricks and was amazed to find the canary still alive! The lady's face lit up on his return and was there the next morning with a table and her friends with pots of teas for the bomb disposal squad and every morning that they were working there on bomb disposal!
I have been search for age to find WW2 video footage of the clydeside blizts, I can't find any anywhere, no newsreels or nothing, there must be some somewhere, Glasgow was heavily bombed during the second world war but all I was taught in history class was about the London Blitz's, so am trying to find more out about my Glasweign history.
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That's because the only place that gets mentioned outside the London blitz is Coventry......yet the blitz on clydbank was much heavier and much more deaths as it was 2 nights where Coventry was one night.....900 people died in Belfast...in their blitz ....that never gets mentioned either.....its an English thing......
The people in Clydebank have lived through many historical marker and there re is always a Crane
My mom was a child of eight when this happened
So was my dads friends dad