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Ghosts of the Blitz
One of the greatest challenges in the aftermath of the Clydebank Blitz was where to take the dead. The town's morgue was far too small to cope with the number of people killed over the two nights of devastation, 528 in total. Across Clydebank, makeshift mortuaries were established in buildings such as churches and schools. One of these was the newly built Clydebank High School on Janetta Street. Within its gym hall and along its corridors, bodies were laid out in rows as fa
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Apr 173 min read


Flannan Lighthouse Mystery
While researching the maternal side of my family, I came across several newspaper articles from 1939 about my great-grandfather's...
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Dec 26, 20245 min read


Ghosts of the Blitz
Eighty-three years ago, on the 13th and 14th of March 1941. Hitler did his best to destroy my hometown of Clydebank; the town was raised...
yourhistoryguy
Nov 26, 20246 min read


The Son Who Returned from the Dead and the Unknown Boy in Grave 229A: A Clydebank Mystery
While researching for a client on the British Newspaper Archive, I came across a story from 1931, which I can only describe as a Netflix...
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Nov 26, 20224 min read
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