GLASGOW PREPARES FOR WAR
Up to 85O people were employed in Glasgow's Kelvin Hall producing Barrage Balloons and Dinghies for the war effort. Kelvin Hall was one of the main Barrage Balloon factories in the UK during the war.
Below is the raising of Glasgow's first Barrage Balloon during the war in 1939.
Air Raid Precautions worker on Edinburgh Road, Glasgow. He is painting the kerb stones with a white reflective paint which will reflect as cars use their side lights during the black outs.
I wonder how many miles of kerbs he painted and how many lamp posts he put rings around?
Part of Weir's of Cathcart with it's Camouflage in place. Weirs was known to be on the Luftwaffe's target list.
Here is one of Glasgow's war time precautions which i came across but was not previously aware of. The picture below shows the Bomb damage precautions which were put in place of the Forth and Clyde Canal. Photograph's below were taken at the Firhill Basin.
To the left is essentially a sheet pile Dam to narrow the width of the Canal to be closed in an emergency. Between the Concrete blocks an emergency Lock gate could be placed to dam the Canal if it was bombed where it sits higher than areas of the city and could cause substantial flooding if bombed.
These Emergency Lock gate positions / Canal narrowings were, as you can see from the picture below (circa late 1960's), in place for some time after the war.
I do not know if there is remnants of these fixtures still in place at Firhill Basin and at Speirs Wharf which were two of the locations, or if they were removed during the Canal refurbishment around the millenium.