“The people where I stayed at the top of Lynedoch Street, that was where all the American’s - quite a lot of them sailed from here, to go to the theatres of war. So, there was a railway, the Princes Pier Line, all the way down. Well, that was going all night, and there was tanks, you name it, the whole property shook. How our properties lasted I don’t know!”

“My friend and I, we were left for 6 month in the property we were in while the rest of them were moved to the new high flats. There were three people in the flat, me on the bottom, and the elderly lady who didn’t want to go the high flats and my friend up on the next floor. We were left in the tenement property on our own and the mice were going mad. I was more frightened of mice than anything and we had to wait there for 6 month till these houses were finished.”

”You see my sister was in the Wrens. Where we lived in Hope Street, it was what they called an attic flat it, it was the very top and my mother was very, very sensitive to sound. My sister was on the night shift, coming in in the morning, and my mother says, ‘What happened down at the Clyde last night?’ She says, ‘Why?’ My mother says, ‘I heard Boom Boom.’ A submarine had got through the net and they were charging it. It was a German submarine. They never usually got as far as here, but it got through the submarine net - they were trying to get in here to bomb the rest of the boats, but they didenae get in. It was the navy that went out with the boats and depth charged them - this is what my mother heard. And see the nights of the Blitz, my mother had us ready before the sirens went because she was sensitive. When you’re up high, the noise, you hear it quicker. We were half way down the stair before the time they set the sirens off.””