New website

Thank you for visiting - please can I redirect you to my new website which contains all the existing material plus new posts from the end of March 2025 onwards:


You can click here, or type untoldhistory.co.uk into your browser.

The Bearsden War memorial profiles are now displayed alphabetically by surname and are far easier to see at a glance.  There's also the option to search by the area within Bearsden where the person lived, by the year they died and by the branch of the armed forces they served in.

You can also access my small but growing collection of work on the history of Bearsden as well as the research on incidents in the Blitz, some Clydeside (and more to come) also central London.

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