Stories categorised in 'Glasgow and Argyll'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Hammocks were the order of the day, and they were slung on brackets over the tables and around the walls....
The first vehicles to arrive were civil defence vans like Lance Corporal Jones’ butcher's van...
Suddenly at around 05.30hrs a small flotilla of German “E” boats appeared out of the smoke...
The small, burly figure of my dad was framed in the light as he went to the front door and asked: "Who...
Stranded in the Belfast black out Within a week of the funeral we set out for Belfast, a journey of over...
* 11.05am 3 SEPTEMBER, 1939: straight after Chamberlain's announcement of war the sirens wernt off in...
We went to the Aberfeldy Academy, all together, the locals in the mornings and the Glasgow vacs in the...
A fellow sergeant he made friends with had also been transferred from the 51st Highland Division, Sergeant...
My dad and my uncle Tommy were brothers, and my mum and my aunty Mary were sisters... The other Tommy was...
This fellow Gillespie he said there's a doctor in Aldershot who wants to see you, Jimmy McKillop, he...
We could even see a glow in the sky to the west of Glasgow, where we knew the shipbuilding industry was...
The company was sent to Bellahouston Park to erect fifty Nissen huts to provide the transit accommodation...
He is the Heavyweight Champion of the World, that is the great Joe Louis himself, the Brown Bomber. I have...
So my mother decided that in future we would remain in the hall and see the film through. At this, my...
We also had an aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle, and some Spitfires were carried halfway to Malta and then flown...
There were two air raid shelters built in our street in Glasgow, exactly 100 yards apart from each other -...
I lived in a tenement building in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow. -- Read all Tommy Mac's edited...
At the same time we believed the Germans were to launch a bombing raid on Clydeside. All the Germans did...
Then my mother was allocated the house next to my aunt's, and she moved in there with my then two young...
People walked into them, especially after they'd had a few drinks, and children ran out of the close...
At that time it was against the law for a cinema to open for profit on a Sunday, so a well-known Glasgow...
And he said ‘Oh aye,’ he said ‘the pub's open’... There was neither spirits,...
While I was an evacuee, one morning Mrs Campbell sent my cousin Tommy and I to the next farm with a sort...
My husband came home from the Army on his first leave at 5 am and then had a bath, then came to...
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