John MacLeod has worked in newspapers since graduating from Edinburgh University, including as a columnist and writer-at-large for The Scotsman and The Herald. Shortly after the bombing stopped in Clydebank, the last bomb of the night fell on Glenburn Street in Maryhill at 5.35am. The The first was military. Anti-aircraft guns were located up and down the Clyde coast, in Glasgow at Kings Park and Carmunnock on the southside, at Station Road in Bearsden and out near Khyber Pass in what is now Mugdock Park. out of eleven schools. Communal shelters were built in some streets and back courts. Click on the image to view a larger version. Piorun, "defenders of Clydebank". Hull, the worst-bombed city in England, likewise grew inured to being described as “an east-coast town”, even as sailors came home on leave and lamented through incessant raids that they felt safer at sea. Video: Reporting Scotland, 2009. From isolated detonations in. My mum and dad survived the bombing in lighthouse Stevens shipyard. It wasn't until a hot spell in 1995 made the river levels in the Kelvin fall very low that a passerby spotted a missing arm from one of the sculptures, that had lay in the water for over 50 years. Evacuees in Whitecrook Street, Clydebank(Image: West Dunbartonshire Libraries and Cultural Services). Before midnight in Glasgow, bombs had also landed in Govan and at the junction of Radnor Street and Argyle Street. SEVENTY-SIX years ago tonight a devastating aerial attack took place which will never be forgotten. 35,000 were made homeless. Over the course of the two nights 439 bombers dropped more than 1,000 bombs on Clydebank in what amateur historian Les Taylor called “the most cataclysmic event” in war-time Scotland in his book Luftwaffe over Scotland: a history of German air attacks on Scotland, 1939-45. Bombed Out (Glasgow) 1941, Walls marked by shrapnel at the former bath house in Clydebank, Rescuers among the rubble of a Glasgow tenement destroyed by German bombing, Old houses on the left, new on the right, replacing bomb damaged houses on Crow Road, Map of Glasgow war damage, Mitchell Library, Daily Record 27 March 1941 alludes to the bombing of Glasgow and Clydebank. After those two nights, Three local firemen were awarded the George Medal after entering a burning building to control and stop a fire which would have destroyed a mass amount of materials contributing to the war effort. Situated on the north bank of the River Clyde, it borders the village of Old Kilpatrick (with Bowling and Milton beyond) to the west, and the Yoker and Drumchapel areas of the adjacent City of Glasgow immediately to the east. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. moonlit evening on Thursday 13 March 1941, just after 9pm, the first of 236 German bombers converged on Clydeside. BBC © 2014 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Intense bombing occurred … Index on Censorship is a nonprofit that campaigns for and defends free expression worldwide. Through a range of in-depth reporting, interviews and illustrations, the spring 2014 issue of Index on Censorship magazine explores how modern propaganda was invented and looks at poster campaigns, partisan journalism in the USA, WWII, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. 5,000 homes were completely destroyed and a further 25,000 were damaged. You may wish to download the Adobe Flash player. Read more. My mother talked about her cousins being killed in the Clydebank blitz by a "flying mine" but she would not go into details. The pottery was founded in 1856 by R. Cochran, and ceased trading in 1935. In Greenock a distillery had been blazing from the first night which acted as a beacon for the bombers to bomb. goldfish through enemy action.'. Enterprise, Glasgow City, Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire I recently read a book about Scottish war artists.Although there wasn't a picture of it, the book mentioned a painting called "Bomb Crater, Knightswood" by Ian Fleming, painted after the Clydebank blitz.I spent my teenage years in Knightswood in Glasgow and although I knew that huge parts of Clydebank had been flattened during the war, I really had no idea which areas of Glasgow had been bombed. The Heavy AA Guns at Station Road Bearsden -the actual address was 500 Garscadden Road with a Drumchapel address as this area was within the Glasgow city boundary by 1941.