CLYDEBANK, From Canoes to Cunarders (Part Five)

[@davesr25]

Ty for posting all these, saw this when I was in primary school. Watching it again as an adult it has an even greater effect.....All my family worked in singers or john browns. It's sad to think what Clydebank has become. I now live in Cork but still miss Clydebank so much. Hopefully one Clydebank will find it's niche and thrive again. Thanks once again for posting these memory's are worth so much, least we never forget.

[@cunardwhitestar34]

Thanks for sharing this. I'm an ocean liner buff and fascinated with all things British. I'm also American, but it pains me to see what has come of the UK shipbuilding industry, from Belfast to the Clyde to Tyneside, Merseyside, and eslewhere. I wish I had in my power to bring all the yards back where they belong. Anyway though, this was a fine documentary on Clydebank itself, and I have learned a lot about the town and its distinguished history.

[@jeankelly6575]

What happened to part 4?

[@alanoneill3065]

woah...erm..THE BLITZ??? Where did that nightmare feature in this series? My parents, both Bankies, my mother born on Dalmuir, my father from Whitectrook, one night, March 13, left the Anderson shelter in my fathers parents house in Whitecrook to walk to their tenement home in Campbell Street beside Holm Park, Yoker. It was a pile of rubble. All they had was the clothes on their backs...and 2 babes in arms, my brother and sister They were refugees. And THEN my father was called up. He was sent to the Navy...to be a Telegraphist on a Corvette...a Communications vessel on the North Atlantic convoys to Murmansk They never spoke about it