Clydebank Blitz

The Clydebank Blitz was a pair of air raids conducted by the Luftwaffe on the shipbuilding and munition-making town of Clydebank in Scotland. The bombings took place in March 1941. The air raids were part of a bombing program known today as The Blitz.

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Clydebank

Clydebank (Scottish Gaelic: Bruach Chluaidh) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Situated on the north bank of the River Clyde, it borders the village of Old Kilpatrick (with Bowling and Milton beyond) to the west, and the Yoker and Drumchapel areas of the adjacent City of Glasgow immediately to the east. Depending on the definition of the town's boundaries, the suburban areas of Duntocher, Faifley and Hardgate either surround Clydebank to the north, or are its northern outskirts, with the Kilpatrick Hills beyond. Historically part of Dunbartonshire and founded as a police burgh on 18 November 1886, Clydebank is part of the registration County of Dumbarton, the Dunbartonshire Crown Lieutenancy area, and the wider urban area of Greater Glasgow. A native of Clydebank is locally known as a 'Bankie', as distinct from a 'Glaswegian' (Glasgow itself is fiercely regarded as a separate place by locals, despite Clydebank being contiguous with the Glasgow urban area) - whilst the term forms the nickname for the town's football team Clydebank FC who are known as 'The Bankies'.

Clydebank East railway station

Clydebank East railway station served the town of Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, from 1882 to 1959 on the Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway.

Clydebank railway station

Clydebank railway station is a railway station serving the town of Clydebank in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is located on the Argyle Line and the North Clyde Line. Passenger services are operated by ScotRail.

St Andrew's High School, Clydebank

St Andrew's High School was a Catholic high school situated in Whitecrook in Clydebank in Scotland. It was closed in 2009 and amalgamated with St Columba's High School to form St Peter the Apostle High School on the site of St Columba's in Drumry. The final head teacher was Mick Vassie (in post from 1995) who then took over as head of the new school; he retired in 2013. By June 2010 the building had been deemed to be in a dangerous condition following two arson attacks, hastening its demolition. As with the other vacant site in the town where a school had been (at Braidfield High School), the St Andrew's site lay unused for some years until 2016, when the local authority approved plans for it to be used for a housing development; construction actually commenced in 2019.