Clydebank Photos 1978 to 1985 and present day

[owenatmyclydebankp]

Hello Everybody. Today 13th march 2011, is the 70th Anniversary of the Clydebank Blitz. At that time, my mother and three sisters were living in Ayr because of the war but decided to come back that day to their home in Langholm Street, Yoker not knowing that Clydebank would be bombed that night. My two oldest sisters, Mary and Nancy told me their memories of the Blitz and the war. I have put it on my website if you would like to read it.
You will find their story at http://www.myclydebankphotos.co.uk/page39.htm
We should never forget...

[Ben Lomond]

Just came across the My Clydebank Photos website and found it fascinating.
Especially loved the old maps.

My mother stayed in the tenements on Hamilton Street which are long gone leaving an empty space opposite the new Farmfoods/Costcutters shops. I wondered would anyone know the name of the pub which sat on the corner of Hamilton St/Glasgow Road? 

[myyran]

Could it have been the 'Victoria Bar' .

[owenatmyclydebankp]

Hello myyran,
Victoria Bar rings a bell. I think you are right. Well done.

[Ben Lomond]

That's great thanks. My dad used to meet my mum outside this pub and walk along to the chippy at John Brown's (Italian owned i think), then walk back along the road eating their fish tea.

Nae expense spared in those days.

  

[owenatmyclydebankp]

We had a lot of Italian chip shops back in the old days. Great fish suppers I remember.

[myyran]

'Nae taxi's eether' ... what a  long walk,  but that's the way it was then . Folk's thought  nothing of  walking  for miles.   The chippie was the best for miles around.  It was Italian owned. Can't remember the name at the moment, but I do remember the  husband and wife.  Was it something like Tejeski.

[owenatmyclydebankp]

Yes, we walked everywhere in those days. I still like to walk around Clydebank taking photographs. I think the chip shop was called Tedescas or something like that. There was also one called Genasis.

[owenatmyclydebankp]

Hello everybody,
I finally got round to doing another update to the website. I have added more photos the Clydebank In Colour album myclydebankphotos.co.uk/page2.htm. I have also added some more photos to the Out And About 2 album myclydebankphotos.co.uk/page7.htm that I took in St Andrews in 1978 and photos I took in Summerston to the My Glasgow Photos album myclydebankphotos.co.uk/page4.htm. I hope you enjoy them.