Dalmuir: Jellicoe, Pattison, Burns, Beatty and Castle Streets, 13th to 14th March 1941
In the space of around six hours on the night of 13th to 14th March 1941, five explosions in Dalmuir killed at least 112 people. Here is a map of...
Clydebank: Whitecrook Street, 14th March 1941
North of the railway bridge, the eastern side of Whitecrook Street was built first as Braemar Terrace (in 1941 much of it belonged to the estate of William Gaul, who...
Radnor Street, Crown Avenue, Church Street and other incidents in Radnor Park on the two nights of the Clydebank Blitz
I’ve used this photo from 1934 before for the parachute mine that landed on 72-80 Second Avenue just after midnight on the 13th/14th March 1941 (link) but I am now...
Second Avenue, St Stephens Shelter, Graham Avenue and the Wardens’ Post on Janetta Street: Clydebank on 13th and 14th March 1941
In a previous post I covered what was probably the single biggest loss of life in the bombing of Clydebank, at 72 to 80 Second Avenue when a parachute mine...
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...
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...
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...
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...