{"id":12517,"date":"2017-02-22T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/?p=12517"},"modified":"2017-02-22T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:00:27","slug":"p7-ww2-bishopton-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/2017\/02\/22\/p7-ww2-bishopton-news\/","title":{"rendered":"P7 – WW2 Bishopton News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we received from George O’Neill (a pupil’s parent) about an interesting find of his from a few years ago. He had read in our Twitter feed that I had posted about the unexploded bomb (UXB) in Portsmouth. This story reminded him of his own story about where he lives…<\/p>\n

“I work in architecture and a few years back we did some background research on Dargavel (the ROF factory before development started). We found a WW2 German air force aerial reconnaissance photo of the site. Obviously a munitions factory would be of great interest during the war. It got my attention because my house it on it!”<\/p>\n

Please see the aerial photo he emailed me (apologies for the resolution – it’s a scan of an old print out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr O’Neill says: “You can see Greenock Road\/ Kingston road, the school would be just off the top of the map above the word BISHOPTON. A couple of minor miscalculations by a pilot could have made Bishopton a very different place.”<\/p>\n

Wow! What a scary thought!<\/p>\n

He also said that while digging in his garden a few years ago he discovered a large metal canister! He was assured it was something to do with\u00a0drainage but he was very careful\u00a0when covering it back up…just in case!<\/p>\n

Thank you for sharing this amazing photo and your story, Mr O’Neill.<\/p>\n

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Today we received from George O’Neill (a pupil’s parent) about an interesting find of his from a few years ago. He had read in our Twitter feed that I had posted about the unexploded bomb (UXB) in Portsmouth. This story reminded him of his own story about where he lives… “I work in architecture and … Continue reading P7 – WW2 Bishopton News<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16028],"tags":[640,1062],"class_list":["post-12517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whole-school-news","tag-photos","tag-topic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12519,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions\/12519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}