my mum used to live at 17 shields road and the bombers used to try and bomb the ship yards but dont know if there was any other bomb damage in the area
she also told me that there was an underground air raid shelter in the playground of shields road school can anyone confirm that this shelter existed? and in which playground it was located? unfortunately very few photos of this school exist for some reason
there were two playgrounds one on wallace grove and the larger one on shields road was never in the shields road playground but the janny!
used to allow us kids to play in the smaller playground though why he never allowed us to use the larger playground on shields road remains with me to this day a complete mystery possible he wasnt allowed to let us use the larger playground only the small one, the reason for the two playgrounds was this was in the days when boys and girls were educated seperately and played seperately