Although John Brown 's Shipyard, traditionally builders of the world's finest ships and spiritual home of the famous UCS work-in, may now build oil-rigs as part of an American combine, the ' Bankie ' by blood and inclination has inherited a militant working-class mantle. Both town and people bear the memories of the Depression and the Blitz like duelling scars - scars borne with a pride which marks them off and binds them together.