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This contribution is taken from the collections of the McLean Museum, Greenock, part of Inverclyde Council

“After the night of 6th May we were turned out to the distillery in Baker Street. It was in a terrific mess. Most of it was lying across Belville St where they had heavily bombed the warehouse. You couldn’t get along Ingleston Street at all. Our unit was at the corner of Drumfrochar Road and Baker Street. There was a part of that distillery where they contained six tanks. These tanks had what we called industrial alcohol, part of the war effort — I think it had something to do with high explosive bombs. These tanks were burning but not in the sense that they were ablaze. There were jets of flame all around the seams and, as access could only be made from one side, it made extinguishing these jets almost impossible. It was a case of staying there all night while the raid was on, cooling these tanks down till it was safe to approach them closer” from Greenock Blitz book. Unknown author

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