Clydebank Blitz - when Hyndland was also bombed
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:13 pm
http://www.hyndl.demon.co.uk/hyndland/dact/7landmine.htm
I found this via various links from this website and March 13th, 1941 (during the Clydebank Blitz) is a time I'm particularly interested in.
I'm originally from Hyndland and I lived at the foot of Turnberry Road up until a couple of years ago. I've always known a bomb devastated 30% of the tenements on Dudley Drive (you can see where the newer ones, although similar in appearance, have been built to fill the gaping hole from the destruction of the old ones), but I've never been able to find anything about this. I found this remarkable site (see above) last night and was quite shocked that quite a lot of housing in that area was ruined. Almost 100 people were killed there that evening.
This is what Dudley Drive looked like before it was bombed:
and this is what the replacement tenements looked like:
and this area at Hyndland Road, just before the shops, appears to have been another area devastated:
(there are horrible 60s/70s style flats in their place now).
In this image you can make out where an entire row of houses where 50 people were killed is here in Peel Street once was (next to West of Scotland Cricket Ground):
Can anyone point me in the direction of pictures taken in this area directly after the Blitz?
I found this via various links from this website and March 13th, 1941 (during the Clydebank Blitz) is a time I'm particularly interested in.
I'm originally from Hyndland and I lived at the foot of Turnberry Road up until a couple of years ago. I've always known a bomb devastated 30% of the tenements on Dudley Drive (you can see where the newer ones, although similar in appearance, have been built to fill the gaping hole from the destruction of the old ones), but I've never been able to find anything about this. I found this remarkable site (see above) last night and was quite shocked that quite a lot of housing in that area was ruined. Almost 100 people were killed there that evening.
This is what Dudley Drive looked like before it was bombed:
and this is what the replacement tenements looked like:
and this area at Hyndland Road, just before the shops, appears to have been another area devastated:
(there are horrible 60s/70s style flats in their place now).
In this image you can make out where an entire row of houses where 50 people were killed is here in Peel Street once was (next to West of Scotland Cricket Ground):
Can anyone point me in the direction of pictures taken in this area directly after the Blitz?