Bombs over Glasgow in WW2

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Postby crusty_bint » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:36 pm

Some images from wartime

Lord Provost Paddy Dolan inspecting types of air-raid shelters at the Scottish ARP School for "instruction in incendiary bombs" at Beech Avenue, Ibrox in 1939
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Postby crusty_bint » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:39 pm

Supermarine Spitfire on show at the McLellan Galleries as part of the the 1939 Royal Aircraft Exhibition
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Postby crusty_bint » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:41 pm

Three Air Raid Precautions women clearing snow from the streets in 1942
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Postby crusty_bint » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:44 pm

You know... I have this terrible coke problem

...I cannot get smokeless fuel for love nor money!! ::):

Neither could these guys, this was the queue for coke at the Tradeston Gas Works in a WWII winter
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Postby crusty_bint » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:52 pm

Radnor Street, Clydebank, after the bombing raid of 13 MArch 1941. The caption with this pic states that a survey earlier in the month showed that only 30% of Clydesiders thought that heavy air raids were likely. In the event the unexpectedness of it made the night all the more horrific.
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Postby crusty_bint » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:55 pm

Rescue workers search desperately for survivors amidst the devastation. During the two nights of bombing 1,200 Clydesiders died, more than 500 in Clydebank alone.
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Postby crusty_bint » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:58 pm

Boyd St, Govanhill 1941, hit by a stray bomb.
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Postby crusty_bint » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:59 pm

A clippie cheers at the news of German surrender in May 1945
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Postby crusty_bint » Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:01 pm

June 1947, the war has been over for 2 years but here Spitefires of Glasgow's 602 Squadron exercise above Abbotsinch
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Postby HollowHorn » Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:45 pm

Something to look out for tomorrow:
http://heritage.scotsman.com/greatscots ... 1646592005
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Postby Socceroo » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:24 pm

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1941 - Mr Beanland waves from the Anderson Shelter constructed in his Springburn Bedroom.

I wonder which floor their house was on?
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Postby Socceroo » Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:24 pm

ARP Rescue worker being fitted with ropes and remote breathing apparatus. Glasgow 1941.

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Rescue workers search Glasgow Tenement following Luftwaffe Air Raid. Glasgow 1941.

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Rescue workers preparing to rescue young woman trapped in tenement in Glasgow for six days following Air Raid. Glasgow 1941.

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Postby HollowHorn » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:21 pm

Socceroo wrote:1941 - Mr Beanland waves from the Anderson Shelter constructed in his Springburn Bedroom.

The saddest thing is that they probably believed that they would be safe within their wee tin hut :cry:
There is a representation of an "Anderson Shelter" in the People's Palace.
Growing up in Clydebank, I am more than farmiliar with the interiors of those wee shelters.
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Postby glasgowken » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:50 am

Did the Corporation sell the Anderson Shelters after the war ? There's quite a few used as sheds around my area, which was built in the 1950's.
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Postby Socceroo » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:07 am

Sell them after the war - If you wanted one during the war you had to pay for it!

Yes, Glasgowken, i think i read and an article in one of the newspaper archives that stated they were basically getting used as lawnmower sheds from 1944 onwards, and also that the Local Authorities were selling them off to Contractors for fitting to the back of open back Lorries and also the public for for storing tools etc.

Ideal for fastening onto the back of your Lorry to have a brew in if you were working with a roads squad or placing over your hole in the road to keep the weather out.

I really wonder how effective an Anderson shelter was if a 250lb bomb landed within 50ft of you.

I noted in another newspaper article, and i think i mentioned in another post that it was a 500lb bomb which landed next to the bridge at the bottom of Kelvin Way, yet it took out all the windows on the the south facing elevation of the University on Gilmorehill a fair distance away.

Anderson shelters were great at protecting people from blast and debris, and there is no doubt they saved many lives, but i really wonder how many people died as a result of being in shelters which were inadequate when the bombs fell close.
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