Glasgow and Argyll

Waltzing Matilda

I remember there being lots of barrage balloons near where I lived and one in particular which was always...

The Greenock Blitz: Taking Shelter on a Farm

My brother was friendly with Archie Millar, a farmer, and it was to his farm we all went. My brother...

London to Helingsburgh.

There was a land mine that fell on Tollinghdon Road, Holloway, London, just next door but one. We travelled...

HMS Hood 1939

I was a nurse on leave from my hospital - Alloa and I had gone home to Port Glasgow to stay with...

Married life in Bridge of Weir during the War

I met my husband in 1940 and married him in 1942, he was in the Argyll and Sutherland regiment and 6 weeks...

Bomb Disposal with a Heart Condition

As part of the war effort he was co-opted to assist with the Clyde River Patrol – part of whose...

Evacuees in Galston

Glasgow was heavily bombed during World War II especially around the engineering works and transport links...

The Barrage Balloon that Broke Loose from Blochairn Gas works

The balloon landed on top of her block of houses....

ane braw bricht moonlicht nicht

My family were farmers & fruitgrowers, whose land extended right down to the riverside just opposite...

A Young Boy in Greenock Blitz

I was born in John Wilson Street.in the East end of greenock in February 1938... After the war we returned...

Sleepless Nights

My brother Albert was in Belvedere hospital with scarlet fever and a land mine dropped behind it but...

Grandad: Service in the Merchant Navy

My grandfather survived and returned home after the war and was a poor husband and dad. I think this story...

Radio Story: Recharging Accumulators in Greenock

There was in Greenock during wartime days, a well known worthy called Puchle Coyle... Puchle asked a young...

Blitz in Greenock: Service as an Ambulance Driver

Grandfather had some property at the Mill dam in Port Glasgow and he was well off enough to support mother,...

Greenock Blitz: Incendiaries

And my sister and I, we ran up into the house and there was an incendiary bomb blazing like mad in the...

Story of a Greenock War Hero: With the 8th Army in Italy

He did his time in North Africa, Italy and saw Monte Cassino....

My Mum’s Life during the War: In Greenock

My father died during the war and mum brought up 3 children - 1 girl, 2 boys....

HMS Dasher

John Lawson remembers HMS Dasher which was torpedoed by a German Submarine in the River Clyde near...

Watching the Planes Go By: In Greenock

During the war I lived in Belville Street. My two young sons Peter & Jim used to run about excitedly...

Scottish Pride

As Geordie readied his bayonet-tipped rifle, the instructor said quietly but passionately “Go on...

Scottish Pride

As Geordie readied his bayonet-tipped rifle, the instructor said quietly but passionately “Go on...

'Curly' Gow Takes on 'Dicke' Goering

'Sex Education Classes'

As I mentioned already ,I lived in a tenement building in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow... The courting...

The Dummy Football Match

At the same time we believed the Germans were to launch a bombing raid on Clydeside ... All the Germans did...

Soldiers based at Dalmellington

The first army units to take over the halls in the village were the fusiliers - who were posted after 6...

Silver Collection

At that time it was against the law for a cinema to open for profit ,so a well known Glasgow eccentric...