While there is a memorial to the people killed in Clydebank, which bears the names of 512 people from the town who died, there is no public memorial to the similar number killed in Glasgow itself. However, if you know what to look for, you can still see traces of the scars these raids left across the city.
Within Glasgow itself, around 600 people died, including 110 killed by a parachute mine on Nelson Street in the Tradeston area of the city (as far as I can work work out, this is one of the highest civilian body counts from a single bomb in the whole of the UK during World War Two). Some of those who died across the city in these raids were never identified and were buried in mass graves, such as this one on Eastwood Cemetery.
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Eighty-five years ago, between the 13th and the 15th of March 1941, Clydeside was targetted by German bombers. While it's generally referred to as the Clydebank Blitz, locations were targetted along the length of the Clyde from Cambuslang to Greenock. The raids involved over 200 German aircraft which dopped 272 tonnes of bombs as well as 1,650 incendiary devices.
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Between the 13th and 15th of March 1941, the German airforce dropped over 250 tonnes of bombs on Clydeside, killing around 1,200 people (half in Clydebank and half in Glasgow). This gravestone in Eastwood New Cemetery is a reminder that to this day, not all the bodies of those who were killed were ever identified. It's one of half a dozen similar stones in a row tucked away at the back of the graveyard.
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While the statues which were also blown from the bridge into the river were retrieved and replaced once the war was over, the ornate parapet was replaced with the much plainer one you can see today and the debris from the original one was left where it fell.
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Remains of the original parapet of the Kelvin Way Bridge in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow lying on a gravel bank at the side of the river that passes beneath it. The bridge was built in the 1910s, and was badly damaged by a bomb dropped during the Clydebank Blitz in March 1941.
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Carved stonework in the water below the Kelvin Way Bridge in Glasgow. This was most likely blown from the bridge when it was hit by a German bomb dropped during the Clydebank Blitz in March 1941, and suggests the parapet was originally more ornate than the plain sandstone one which lines the bridge today.
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New flats filling in a gap between old sandstone tenements on Peel Street in the Partick area of Glasgow. The gap was created when a German parachute mine exploded at 11:25pm on 13th of March 1941, killing 50 people and destroying much of the street. As with other similar sites in the city, there's nothing to mark its history.
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At 12:01am on the 14th of March 1941, which is 83 years ago tonight, 110 people were killed when a parachute mine was dropped by a German bomber on Nelson Street in the Tradeston area of Glasgow, near this junction with Centre Street. This was around 10% of all the fatalities in what is now known as the Clydebank Blitz.
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The statues lay in the river until 1949 when they were finally recovered and at this point it was found War's right arm was missing. This was replaced in 1951 and a plaque was added to mark the occasion. The missing arm was eventually recovered from the river in 1995, but by then replacement had blended in with the rest of the statue and it was decided not to attempt to re-attach the original one.
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