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The Exhibition Panels

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Transformed by War

Threat of Invasion

Use of west coast ports and creating a new one in the Clyde

Clyde Anchorage Emergency Port - wartime ingenuity?

    Clyde Anchorage Emergency Port - making it work

    Defending the small ports and rescuing allied airmen

    Coastal communities respond to attacks

    Admiralty takes control of all shipbuilding

      Canals and the 'Idle Women'

      Coastal shipping lifeline

      The ports crisis

      Women trained as shipbuilders solve a key shortage

        Coastal areas provide essential training for D Day

        Would requisitioned coastal land and property be returned

          Main sources - National Archives (Kew), British Newspaper Archive, material supplied by individual Heritage Harbours
          Images as indicated and from photographic archive of Imperial War Museum under IWM Non Commercial Licence.
          Text extracts from CI Savage (Official History ww2) Inland Transport 1957 HMSO and "Wartime Britain 1939-1945" Juliet Gardiner, 2004 ISBN 978-0-7553-1028-9