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Glasgow, general view, showing West Street and Nelson Street. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing south-west. This image has been produced from a damaged negative.
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Title Glasgow, general view, showing West Street and Nelson Street. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing south-west. This image has been produced from a damaged negative.
Image reference SAW017935
Date 30th July 1948
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County Lanarkshire
District City Of Glasgow
Region Strathclyde
Country Scotland
Easting/Northing 258280, 664490

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  • Nelson street corner of Centre street. Glasgow also got bombed on the same two nights of the clydebank blitz. a parachute bomb landed here between the tenements and a tram. 110 people were killed in this one explosion.

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    daz
    Monday 4th February
    10:47am
  • Yes daz you're right,my mother and granny were buried alive in the flattened tenements until rescued.My granny lost everything

    tradeston
    Wednesday 6th February
    6:04pm
  • Shields Road

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    Donald Marshall
    Monday 14th January
    2:18am
  • Scotland Street School

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    Donald Marshall
    Monday 14th January
    2:16am
  • Nelson Street

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    almoffat
    Thursday 22nd November
    8:58pm
  • The part of Nelson Street with the annotation tag was actually flattened during the Clydesde blitz in March 1941 with over 120 killed. The low military style buildins was a rest centre for Merchant seamen on the convoys.

    tradeston
    Saturday 1st December
    1:37am
  • Centre Street Fire Station

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    almoffat
    Thursday 22nd November
    9:10pm
  • This part of Tradeston Street was blocked off in (I think) the late 1950's. This allowed A & W Smith & Co (later Smith Mirrlees) to expand by building a "New" Bay. I worked there from 1977 'til its closure in 1988.

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    almoffat
    Thursday 22nd November
    9:06pm
  • Cook Street

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    almoffat
    Thursday 22nd November
    8:59pm
  • Wallace Street

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    almoffat
    Thursday 22nd November
    8:59pm
  • Tradeston Street

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    almoffat
    Thursday 22nd November
    8:57pm
  • Centre Street

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    almoffat
    Thursday 22nd November
    8:56pm
  • West Street

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    almoffat
    Thursday 22nd November
    8:55pm
  • I grew up in this area in the 50's and 60's,it's pretty much a desert now but then it was a hustling bustling docklands neighbourhood.The river Clyde is at the bottom of the picture and this area was heavily bombed during the Blitz which accounts for a lot of the empty spaces in the picture.I never look at this picture without it bringing back happy memories of friends and family no longer with us.Thank you for a great site.
    Ian in Toronto

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    tradeston
    Saturday 25th August
    12:45am

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