The Clydebank Blitz (Part One)
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- Опубліковано 14 бер 2011
- Part one of the documentary about Scotland's worst civilan disaster. The intense bombing inflicted upon the people of Clydebank by the German lutwaffe over the nights of 13th & 14th March 1941. The goverment of that time censored the full details of what actually happened on those fateful nights.
A total of 528 people died, more than a thousand were injured and only seven of the town's 12,000 homes remained untouched by the bombs.
I survived the Clydebank Blitz and I'm lucky to be alive.I was 8 at the time and remember the bombs falling all around us on Granville Street.The incendiaries finally set our roofs on fire and we lost everything.
Frank McGonigal My Dad's house took a hit from an incendiary bomb too.. completely destroyed.. wondering if you and he went to school together ! Same age !
Frank McGonigal Wondering if you knew my Dad ? Same age ...He remembered seeing his school burn down in Clydebank.
Frank McGonigal I’m happy you made it! my grandmother survived this. She was 3 years old. The whole family survived.
Good job for surviving WW2!!!!!
@@samanthalamborn9017 Good job to your grandma
My Gran used to tell me stories of growing up in the area during the war and I made sure to record all our conversations - I'm now writing a book based on these, but sadly she passed away in 2020 and I have a lot of missing gaps in information! i'm very grateful for uploads like this one, which makes the research much easier!
My gran survived the blitz she lived in whin street. She was evacuated from greenock and her boat got torpedoed. I loved listening too her stories. She passed away just after her 90th birthday.
Awww sad times.
Thanks ever so for posting these videos. I look forward to watching them in order. Grew up in Clydebank, and remember many of these places on film. Who knows who I might see that I recognise? Great to have this educational material on Clydebank and the Blitz available. Thank you. Have subscribed and given a thumbs up.
my great gran stayed in clydebank at this time she was 13 this is terrifying
You can't even imagine how scary this would have been
This still happens...
My aunt is now 95 and she survived the blitz. She has told me many stories of the terrible 2 nights and how it affected Clydebank forever.
My Gran passed away 9 years ago but she was 15 when Belfast was bombed and her home was destroyed in the blitz.
My mum was born and grew up in Clydebank. She lived and worked through the blitz. Wish she was still here to tell me about it. When you’re young, your parents’ stories seem so much old fogey stuff. Wish I'd listened more.
Gerard Mann I wonder if she knew my grandmother and her family.
Wow.
Thank you for making this available. The interviews are really valuable. The Clydebank attacks should be more widely known. I’m reading River of Fire a book about the bombings at the moment. I visited Clydebank recently and saw the memorial outside the town hall. I also visited the museum which given the importance of Clydebank should be much larger and better funded. It deserves something on the scale of the Titanic exhibition in Belfast. Given that Clydebank is only twenty minutes by train from the centre of Glasgow a first rate museum would in my opinion be well attended. Respect to all the victims of the bombing and the survivors
My grandad said he knows some of Hesse people and that he said it was very scary
My mum was a little girl in Ayrshire then and can remember seeing the glow of the fires burning in Clydebank on the horizon.
Always Remembered...mum was 8, lived in 1 Second Terrace. Bombed to smithereens, lost everything but thankfully she and my grandparents survived; always remember those who didn't.
uhh.. how are we supposed to "remember" those who died before we were even born ?? dafty
My old neighbor Angela Scott use to tell me about the war and that a propellor from a plane had went through their roof in vanguard Clydebank
this is terrifying!!!
Should add..they were sheltering in the house because a bomb had blown the doors off their Anderson Shelter in the back garden about 20 minutes before !
My grandfather was a fireman from edinburgh Saunder street struggling to find any info on this aspect
My papa Mr John connolly was orphaned and lost his sister and only survivor I'm so wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him may you rest in peace gone but never forgotten :( xxx
My papa stayed in Clydebank.his house was blitzed
you poor thing, this is terifying to watch I can imagine to archly be in it
00:23 is whin street
it is whin street. my grandpa John Gibson was killed here by a bomb. he had been taking his dog and budgie to the fields
across the road with his pal John Spence who was also killed.
my gran lived in whin street and survived the blitz. She passed away at the ripe old age of 90. She had some amazing stories too tell.
You really didn't want to be in clydebank in March 1941.
OMG scary
thx
The rock family are my great great grandparents
Omg really? My Grandpa lived in Clydebank at the time and knew of the family
@@conormcguire3478 yeah mate I don’t know a lot about them tbh but my dad has done a lot of research as it was my grandads part of the family and my dad and gran wanted to more about them
I'm fa govin