Singers factory, Clydebank

[pepinou]

This is all fascinating. My great grandfather Lewis Henry Smith came over from Detroit, USA, WITH Singer Sewing machines, when the factory was opened. He and his wife and five daughters lived in Helensburgh.

I was born in Helensburgh in 1934 - I can remember air raids, although H'burgh was not greatly affected by dropped bombs - only one fell off the pier - but the noise was horrendous, all the time, and we could see Clydebank, Greenock, all the shipyards, burning.

[JenniferFreil]

You can google the singers factory pictures and also, in Clydebank next to the canal it has photo's of singers factory/machinists outside and a few stories :-).

(Irrelevant information - but there is a store in Glasgow called ALL SAINTS, i think and its shop windows are full of old singer sewing machines. My Grandmother worked there, all I know is that in 1959 she was aged 29 and she worked there at the time as it was on her wedding certificate.)