as ever in this story the funds for that memorial were raised by the people by the lancaster association of scotland i was here on the banks of a clyde that our story has its beginning and it said. this is where the state was born as a tough in one thousand twenty two the name was changed to a few years later because american gas find it difficult to pronounce and just a few yards from here is where they're like customer families finally achieve the hops desired and twenty eleven by having a memorial built to those who died. it's difficult not to contrast the open hearted remembrance of the people directly before they get a lodging at the mission of the authorities in these islands and by denying remember the rest two things. if you don't remember waterfall is sacrifice of casualties then you run the risk of repeating the mistake and secondly will fight the members families cannot have phenolic for the loss of the loved ones. the one customer families were denied both. and in two thousand and eleven when the requiem for the link last year finally arrived it was a people's wreck with. perhaps robert

questions directly then it's peter in two thousand and eight the relatively newly formed lancaster association of scotland achieved a decisive breakthrough they were successful in persuading the scottish government under certain alex salmond to provide the official recognition which had been sought by so many for so long the scottish parliament swept aside generations of indifference and stuck to lancaster medal for the families the victims and survivors some three hundred seventy five have been struck over the years before the claims of formally closed in twenty to thirty. one of those attending the major said of many was robert crick shank in the last few days speaking outside the scottish parliament he lived the experience of that memorable day for then cast your family's. welcome to examine show. you have gone alexander crew shanks was lost in the lancastrian and i'm interested in a boy growing up the family speak about that all explain how you know your grandfather died. father released talk of the tragedy for obvious reasons say my mother gave me snippets and for me a not so very a go information on