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The rest of Dumbarton district merged with neighbouring Clydebank district to become the West Dunbartonshire council area. The 1994 act originally named the new district "Dumbarton and Clydebank", but the shadow authority elected in 1995 requested a change of name to "West Dunbartonshire", which was agreed by the government before the new ...
A recording made in May 1941 by bombed-out civilian Tom Wright features on The Blitz, an archive audiobook CD issued in 2007. There is a yearly memorial service held at Kilbowie Saint Andrew's Parish Church on the anniversary of the Clydebank Blitz and a memorial garden is located there. [ 7 ]
Hardgate is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.. Hardgate has probably been settled since neolithic times with a burial site at Knappers Farm, the Cochno Stone (a cup and ring marked stone), and a burial chamber near Cochno Loch providing evidence of this.
Dumbarton (/ d ʌ m ˈ b ɑːr t ən /; Scots: Dumbairton, Dumbartoun or Dumbertan; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Breatann [t̪um ˈpɾʲɛht̪ən̪ˠ] or Dùn Breatainn [t̪um ˈpɾʲɛht̪ɪɲ], meaning 'fort of the Britons' [5]) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary.
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Despite the close proximity to the shipyard of John Brown & Company, the town hall only suffered minor damage in the Clydebank Blitz in March 1941 during the Second World War. [4] A figure of an angel, also referred to as "Mercury", sculpted by Albert Hodge , which had originally been installed on top of the cupola was relocated to the main ...
Dunbartonshire's origins as a shire (the area administered by a sheriff) are obscure, but it had become a shire by the end of the twelfth century.The shire of Dumbarton was initially similar in area to the earldom of Lennox, covering an area north of the River Clyde and around Loch Lomond.
Map of places in East Dunbartonshire compiled from this list See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties. This List of places in East Dunbartonshire is a list of links for any town, village and hamlet in the East Dunbartonshire council area of Scotland