- Contributed by听
- 大象传媒 Scotland
- People in story:听
- Elizabeth Aitken and her mum, dad and dad's grandparents
- Location of story:听
- Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, Clydebank and Renfrewshire
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A8686849
- Contributed on:听
- 20 January 2006
This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Catherine Garvie, Learning Project Manager at 大象传媒 Scotland on behalf of Elizabeth Aitken from Kilmarnock, North Ayrshire and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.
During the Clydebank Blitz my dad was fire watching in Glasgow. He was taken down to Clydebank and helped to dig the dead people out of the ruins. He never wanted to talk about it.
At home with my mum I remember the first night of the Clydebank Blitz. Mr Silverstone our neighbour was very kind and insisted we went into his air raid shelter when the bombing was going on. My mother worried about my dad who was in Clydebank as well as his parents who lived in Renfrewshire. She was so worried about my grand parents that we went by tram and walked to see if they were OK as the phone lines were down. When we got there we found out that my granddad had gone out and waived his stick and sworn at the German bombers. Whilst doing this, a bomb fell about half an hour away and as a result of the aftershock, he was blown from the front door out the back door that was open.
(This story is linked to articles A8685967, A8686209 and A8765003)
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