Tag: WW2
The thread about the air raids on Edinburgh and Leith during WW2 and the civilian loss of life they caused
The thread about Portobello’s Marine Gardens in WW2; when an old seaside ballroom was converted into a bus garage before being turned into a factory for building landing craft
The thread about plain breid. Its history, its politics and how the law guaranteed its enduring position in the Scottish psyche
The thread about Watson-Watt, Wilkins and Wacław Struszyński; whose work on top-secret electronics to detect aircraft and submarines appreciably shortened World War 2
The thread about the warships built in Leith by Henry Robb during World War 2 and what became of them all
The thread about the Luftwaffe’s glow-in-the-dark bombing maps of Edinburgh and Leith and the air defences that were there to stop them
The thread about Ferranti; the electronics company who came to Edinburgh in WW2 to produce a top-secret, war-winning device which had been invented by a local genius; and its continuing legacy in the city
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