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Socceroo wrote:Fourteen members of the Rocks family were killed at 78 Jellicoe Street their ages ranged from 5 months old to 54 years old.
escotregen wrote:SOCCEROO another site of actual bomb damage is the 4 in a block of flats at the corner of Stonelaw Road and Dryborough Avenue in Rutherglen. This block sustained a direct hit and was badly damaged. Across Stonelaw Road where the Takare sheltered housing complex now is there used to be playing fields. I believe that the playing fields were constructed over some bomb craters from the same bombing run. It was believed at the time that the Luftwaffe were trying night time bombing of the nearby steel and other plant at Cambuslang, and maybe Ravescraig.
The nearby tenement block I lived in for a while in Stonelaw Road had some old well-settled internal structural cracks still evident - my old neighbour maintained that this was shock-wave damage from the bombing raid.
A while back Fossil posted the picture of a tramcar running by the very spot on Stonelaw Road - fasciniting wee item was that you could see the 'Black-out' white rings painted around the tree trunks.
I also started a thread a few months back you may be interested in. That was on WW2 brick built shelters (not the Anderson shelters) of which there are some remaining examples in Kings Park/Croftfoot.
hambone71 wrote: Owners of the flats had to be women living alone.
Timhall wrote:I work for the Woodland Trust Scotland. We are hoping to purchase some land just above Dumbarton on which to plant native woodland (see http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/langcraigs)
On the site is the remains of a 'star bunker' at Maryland Farm above Overtoun House, which apparently was used to light decoys to fool the german bombers. We have been told that these bunkers were quite successful and many bombs were dropped on the Kilpatrick hills rather than Dumbarton itslef. Whilst no doubt many lives were saved, tragically of course many were lost. To commemorate these events we are hoping to work with a school in Dumbarton to encourage the children to learn about their local history and also to plant some commerative trees on the site.
We would be delighted to hear from anyone who can tell us more about the star bunker or perhaps has memories of the bombings or family connections with these events. This may help us bring the story 'to life' and we may even ask you to help the children with the planting of the trees.
If you can help, please contact me at [email protected]
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