Clydebank: Second Avenue Numbers 72 to 80
The records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission name 493 people killed in Clydebank on the two nights of 13th/14th and 14th/15th March 1941. Of these 484 people either have...
Govan Road, Linthouse. 10.42pm on 13th March 1941
The Linthouse Landmine You’ve probably driven along this street at some point but we’re looking from an odd angle. It’s Govan Road, at the western end and we’re looking south...
Dudley Drive and Airlie Street, 23.30 on the 13th March 1941
Between 11.30 on 13th March 1941 and midnight a parachute mine exploded on tenement flats in Dudley Drive, probably on the west side. While we can speculate today what the...
Queen Margaret Road, Glasgow – 00.43, 14th March 1941
I might have set the bar too high when I called this website Untold History; for this post all I have done is re-present the work of others, so I...
13/14 and 14/15 March: timeline of events in Clydebank and Glasgow
This post is an attempt to construct a timetable for the air-raids on Clydeside on 13th and 14th March 1941. I plan to add more detail and also to post...
Kilmun Street: Night of 14-15th March 1941
I was studying this photo from 1939, looking north across Dawsholm gas works and chemical works. My clumsy attempt to match it using Google Earth is below: To try to...
Glenburn Street, Maryhill, 14th March 1941
I am indebted to Jeanette Burns for bringing this incident to my attention and to Michelle Blunn for supplying further information; Michelle, in turn thanks the Twitter account Target Clydeside...
Croydon 15th August 1940: Bombing of Croydon Aerdrome
The bombing of Croydon Aerodrome (RAF Croydon), Thursday 15th August 1940 Britain had been at war just under one year but in that time Germany had forced the surrender of first...
Croydon 15th August 1940: Redwing and Rollason’s
What happened at Redwing? Redwing was located in the most easterly hangar of C block (so closest to Purely Way), according to Cluett. While several accounts describe it as a factory,...
Croydon 15th August 1940: The Bourjois Factory and the rest of the factory estate
What happened at Bourjois? Bourjois made soaps and scents, including the famous “Evening in Paris”. This webpage: http://theglamourologist.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/cosmetics-and-world-war-two.html gives more details of the impact of the war on the cosmetics industry....