Autumn Road Trip Drive From Glasgow To Clydebank West Dunbartonshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, from Glasgow, West along Dumbarton Road on ancestry visit to Clydebank, Scottish Gaelic; Bruach Chluaidh, on the north bank of the River Clyde in West Dunbartonshire. Clydebank was founded as a police burgh on 18 November 1886. A major employer in the town was its founding firm, the John Brown and Company shipyard, which built several well known ships, including the RMS Lusitania, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Elizabeth 2, as well as the warship HMS Hood. On 13 and 14 March 1941, Luftwaffe bombers attacked various targets in and around Clydebank. In what became known as the Clydebank Blitz, the town was seriously damaged as were the local shipyards, the Dalnottar Royal Navy oil depot and the Singer's Sewing Machine factory. Over the two days 528 civilians were killed and over 617 people were seriously injured. Clydebank borders Dumbarton and the villages of Old Kilpatrick, Bowling and Milton to the west, as well as the town of Bearsden in East Dunbartonshire, and the Yoker and Drumchapel areas of the adjacent City of Glasgow. Wet Wet Wet, pop band, was formed in Clydebank in 1982. About the poor career possibilities for youth in Clydebank in the 1980s, Graeme Clark, the bass player, said: " It was either crime, the dole, football, or music, and we chose music. "

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