Singers factory, Clydebank

[pettsy]

Does anyone know where I can get some photos of the Singer Manufacturing company in Clydebank?
My g grandfather worked in the cabinet rooms there before he went to war (WW1)
It is no longer there, was pulled down years ago 

Thank you.

[RJ_Paton]

Have alook at http://www.theclydebankstory.com/index.php  just enter singer in the image search box and several will come up .... plenty of info about Clydebank too.







Added: Link no longer active.

[joette]

If you contact the Archives at Clydebank Public Library then they have mountains of pics of Singers.If you are visiting Clydebank again well worth a visit as they have walls of photos of Singers on display.
It's amazing but almost every Bankie will have had an ancestor who worked in Singers it was the biggest employers for over a hundred years.
My Great-Grandfather was the first to work there.He was from Crieff & had dreams of being a Doctor unfortunately there was no money for this type of education in the family & he had to leave Perthshire & move South.

[pettsy]

Falkyrn thank's for the link I had a look, very interesting. There was a lot of damage in the Blitz.

Joette, I will have to come back up. I have so many more things I want to do.

[joette]

Yes Clydebank was in fact the worst Blitz damaged city in UK almost every house in the Burgh was damaged in some way.
The Council are in the process of demolishing the last of the worst affected including the tenement my Dad was born in in 1929.I off course have never taken a photo thinking it would always be there.

[pettsy]

Oh Joette, is it too late to take a photo now 

Yes the area got hit very hard in the Blitz, it was terrible (not that I was there  )

[Miss Poohs]

Ohhh which street was your dad born in?

Pete was born in a tenement in French Street and he went down a couple of weeks ago and took some piccies just as the bulldozers moved in.

Let me know.

[joette]

My Dad was born at 5 Kitchener St & it is from there he almost drowned.
He was a bit of a "slow" child he wouldn't walk or talk(made up for it when he started).
Anyway he had a little sit on dog & as he didn't walk my Granny left him playing in the back court.He was about two.
After a while Granny heard a commotion & there was my Father & the family dog(an Airdale) in the midst of a crowd.Both were soaking wet.
He had rode his little dog to the Canal which as you know is just behind the tenements.The dog had been pushed or fallen in & Dad had tried to retrieve it.He off course fell in.Luckily the family dog had followed also & seeing Dad in the water had dived in & pulled him to the banks where a passer-by spotted them.
Granny had hated that dog but he got a good chunk of meat that day!

[Miss Poohs]

Oh wow what a story - clever doggie and lucky dad!!

Do you know Kitchener Street was actually renamed Castle Street, way back in the 70's (I think it was)?

The area didn't have the best of reputations and when the houses were renovated it was decided to start a fresh page and rename the street.

I lived at 13 Castle Street - for a very short time right after I spread my wings and left home as a youngster - a couple of years ago 

I think Petes piccies are on the other lappie, which is away at the putter docs right now, but I'll check for you.