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 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.
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Worth seeing in and around Clydebank Blitz
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.
7.7 km · university in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, founded in 1451 · Wikipedia - 02Ibrox Stadium
Ibrox Stadium is a football stadium on the south side of the River Clyde in the Ibrox area of Glasgow, Scotland. The home of Scottish Premiership team Rangers, Ibrox is the third-largest football stadium in Scotland, with an all-seated capacity of 51,700.
7.7 km · football stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum owned by Glasgow City Council is a major art gallery and museum in the Yorkhill area of Glasgow, Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums. It is located in Kelvingrove Park in the West End of the city.
7.7 km · Museum and art gallery near Glasgow in Scotland · Wikipedia - 04Forth and Clyde Canal
The Forth and Clyde Canal is a canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands. This allowed navigation from Edinburgh on the east coast to the port of Glasgow on the west coast.
6.1 km · canal in West Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Riverside Museum
The Riverside Museum is a museum in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland, housed in a building designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, with its River Clyde frontage at the new Pointhouse Quay. It forms part of the Glasgow Harbour regeneration project.
7 km · Transport museum in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Firhill Stadium
Firhill Stadium, also known as the WrightKerr Stadium at Firhill for sponsorship reasons, is a football and former rugby union, rugby league and greyhound racing stadium located in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, Scotland which has been the home of Partick Thistle since 1909. Past ground-sharing agreements have seen Firhill act as a temporary home for three other football clubs: Clyde, Hamilton Academical and Queen's Park.
8.4 km · football stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 07St. Mirren Park
St Mirren Park, also known as The Marbill Coaches Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Paisley, Scotland. It is the home of St Mirren F.C. The stadium is the sixth home of the club and replaced Love Street.
6.1 km · sports stadium in Paisley, Scotland · Wikipedia - 08The OVO Hydro
The OVO Hydro is a multi-purpose indoor arena located within the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow. The arena was initially named The Scottish Hydro Arena after its main sponsor Scottish Hydro Electric.
8.4 km · arena in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 09Roman Catholic Diocese of Paisley
The Diocese of Paisley is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Erected on 25 May 1947 from the Archdiocese of Glasgow, the diocese covers the historic county of Renfrewshire and is 580 km2 in area making it the smallest diocese by area in Scotland.
5.9 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the Scotland · Wikipedia - 10Hamilton Crescent
Hamilton Crescent is a cricket ground in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland, which is the home of the West of Scotland Cricket Club. It was previously also used for association football and hosted the first international football match in 1872, between Scotland and England.
6.5 km · cricket ground · Wikipedia
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Getting to Clydebank Blitz
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 4 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 46 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 64 km
- Stations
- Glasgow Airport, 3.7 km · Glasgow Central railway station, 9.9 km · Jordanhill railway station, 5.1 km · Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, 6 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Clydebank Blitz47 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £6–8
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Clydebank Blitz65 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–9
- Belfast → Clydebank Blitz175 km · quickest by road, 14h 20m · £70–95
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Clydebank Blitz
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Clydebank Blitz. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere's a range of long-stay parks off-site, with transfer minibuses.
- Get in(The airport is in "Local" zone, so the "City" zone fare isn't enough.) McGill's Bus 757 trundles every 30 min to Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, which has very frequent trains to Glasgow Central, and outbound to Gourock (for Dunoon ferry), Wemyss Bay (for Bute ferry), Ardrossan (for Arran ferry) and Ayr.
- Get inThe fare is the same by any route: in 2024 a day trip is £15 and an open return is £20.
- Get inFor a day trip, park up at one of the outlying railway stations, if you can find a space among all the commuter vehicles.
- Get inThe crossing takes 2 hr 30 min, with almost a dozen car ferries a day.
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Clydebank Blitz is 10 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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