Glasgow and Argyll

Glasgow Blitz

The throng filed on board, the bus smelling of tobacco and the windows papered over, we set off, rattling...

WAR TIME IN PAISLEY

We lived at 20, Wallis Street, Paisley, Scotland... Not long after that the Duke of Kent was killed in a...

Bill Henderson's War

Their targets were the German planes that used to come over to bomb John Brown's shipyards and the oil...

The Postman with the Telegram

So one dark and cold morning the postman knocked on my Grandmothers door with the dreaded telegram the war...

The Blitz

She made the decision that we should go to Scotland, to her people, as we had lost our home in London......

The Destruction of the "Maille Brise" in Greenock

Sheila McLeod and her sister Margaret Mackinnon were both at school in Greenock during the war. Margaret...

The Clyde Coast Artillery

I found myself exchanging my Duke of Wellington's cap badge for a Royal Regiment of Artillery one and...

VE Night - Neon Lights and Bananas

One other special wartime memory concerns our grey and red parrot "Polly" who had been brought home...

Greenock Blitz and Scott's Shipbuilders

'They were found temporary accommodation in the shipyard in the old drawing office which we worked...

Paisley in World War II

So Paisley, Clydebank, Govan and Renfrew were all targets for the bombers. Working life My father worked at...

Childhood Memories of the Greenock Blitz

My earliest childhood memories are of being woken by my mother in the middle of the night, bundled into my...

The Luftwaffe Visits Kintyre

Campbeltown - a town of around 6,000 people near the Mull of Kintyre - is a case in point. While the damage...

The Epicasco Saga

The Battery Sergeant Major gave his opinion that we should send a large truck with six fairly hefty men and...

bombs and things

When the bombing started in earnest we didnt know which shelter had been allocated to us and the night they...

Mary Gray's Wartime

I went back to Coatbridge and for a year I worked in the office of Stewart and Lloyds - they made 500lb...

V.E,Day

All of them commandeering the trams and singing and dancing up and down the length of Hope Street ,singing...

Memories of Wartime Scotland

My Grandmother was an ARP Warden and as soon as the sirens went she would get her helmet on and go to...

Port Glasgow and the 1941 Blitz

ARP was very important at that time so I became a warden and was serving at the time of the Greenock blitz...

Memories of Wartime Greenock

Ration books 5-16 blue Food scarce — butter, sugar, ham, eggs, milk, fruit — all in short...

Evacuation 'Abroad' - from Dumbarton to Argyll, 1941

The Clydebank Blitz in March of 1941 was the catalyst that set in motion the chain of events which...

Bombing Run

The German bombers had been flying overhead for a few nights heading for Clydebank... He said Clydebank was...

Admiral Lord Jellicoe

Iain C. Macpherson's reference to the 'Admiral Lord Jellicoe' reminded me of aspects of my...

Clydeside Blitz

This, and the raid that followed is sometimes referred to as the Clydebank Blitz because the shibuilding...

Government Work

This involved almost any useful work, from building airfields, farming or forestry and working on the River...

The Day Ken and Hilda Clark Met

After a pleasant journey, during which Ken plied her with chocolate, Hilda left the train in London where...

My Memories of the War in India and My Uncle’s Fortune in Scotland by Mr S E Ali

My Memories of the War in India and My Uncle's Fortune in Scotland by Mr S E Ali. My Uncle's...