- Contributed by
- BBC Scotland
- People in story:
- William Edgar - 80 years old
- Location of story:
- Barrhead, East Renfrewshire
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A8685156
- Contributed on:
- 20 January 2006
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Catherine Garvie, Learning Project Manager at BBC Scotland on behalf of William Edgar from Barrhead in East Renfrewshire and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.
I lived in Barrhead in a complex. I was about 14 or 15 years old and enemy planes were going overhead. I remember the noise they made ‘chug, chug, chug’. They were going to Clydebank and Yoker to blitz both towns.
A bomb dropped in Barrhead on the way back to Germany. They dropped it to lighten the load; they dropped the remainder of their bombs to get home quicker. Two or three of the air raid shelters in Barrhead got bombed and the stair collapsed in a local pub and killed the landlord!!
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