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Here is part of an O.S. map of around 1939 that identifies the exact location. The broken line running diagonally s. east to n. west is an aerial ropeway that carried coal from a pit out on the moor to the nearest railway siding and so nothing to do with the firing range site. Please feel free to include as part of the page.





]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:49:33 Captain Brittles http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1226882161/ http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1226882161/#num1 I've took pictures of the first stages of the upgrade of the A80 Glasgow - Stirling road to M80 motorway. At the moment it is just chopping down of hundreds of trees and very basic earth works but I intend making a photographic library/album of the works in the vicinity of Cumbernauld/Condorrat/Mollinsburn (where a huge new interchange with the M73 will be built) and though I've described current works so far as 'basic' even those have changed the local landscape quite considerably. The intention is that this might be an historic record.
I'd like to host this album here via Photobucket or Flickr but request specific advice on it should be presented. It will go on for the life of the project, 2012? ]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:36:01 Captain Brittles http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1226522746/ http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1226522746/#num1
Generally mounted on the interior waiting area, these also seem to carry notices of their existence.

However...

Wandering along the road outside the bus shelters, I happened to look up at the roofline of a few the other day, and noticed that there also cameras mounted on the exterior as well. As with the interior items, these are mounted in the recessed edge, also behind a tinted window, but with no notices or colouring to draw any attention to their existence - now that I've noticed the existence of one, I'm seeing them on bus shelters all over the place.

They seem to be mounted in pairs, looking in towards one another from the corners, so there's no blind spot between them.

I should have a pic, but never seem to be carrying a camera when I see them!]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:45:46 Apollo http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1226512930/ http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1226512930/#num1
That may explain the appearance of the little gem pictured below in the main street, where the shops are, and most traffic passes through.

It sits at the top of a fairly high pole, almost 10 metres at a guess, and I couldn't make out the detail of what it actually was without the zoomed pic. The camera is really small, and you can judge it from the screw heads which can be seen on the panels.

It's certainly the first of this design I've come across, and the units below the camera (with its dainty little window wiper) are horn loudspeakers.

In fact, if I do track down the supplier and data on this, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that one is loudspeaker, and the other is a directional microphone, so that suspect sound can be recorded as well as images. England already has them, and the CCTV operators use them to shout at people dropping litter, and there have been complaint about the recording of conversations without people's consent.

]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:02:10 Apollo http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1226113537/ http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1226113537/#num1
Even if he and his partner hadn't been caught trying to by-pass the system, they deserve what they got for sheer stupidity, and not knowing that the four year period that might have let them get away with their plan only starts when the hidden property is revealed.

Secret house demolished

I wonder what they mean when they say "The council hasn't heard the last of this?"

Clearly on the fiddle - as demonstrated simply by the trouble they went to - are they fit people to be running an animal sanctuary?

Come to think of it, is it my imagination, or is there a trend in cases like this for those concerned to have some sort of country or farm activity running at the public front of their activities? Where did they get the money to build the house - running an animal charity is surely a charitable activity, and shouldn't be providing them with an income of sufficient level to maintain the sanctuary and finance a house of the standard described in the report.

If there's only the two of them running it, they shouldn't have enough time left after caring for the animals to make a fortune in other jobs.]]> Sat, 8 Nov 2008 03:05:37 Apollo http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1225926222/ http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1225926222/#num1
There were four to start with: Dunninaham Point, Craignai Point, Rhuad Point, and Bennane Head.

Bennane Head is well known, so can be forgotten.

Rhuad Point can at least be identified - even though we can't pinpoint it accurately so far.

As for the last two, there is a fair chance that these have been subject to transcription errors, so the actual name needed may be something similar to that given. I've had little luck with any variants on the spelling so far.

There's also the chance that the correct names are old, and have fallen out of general use, hence why there is no sign of anything similar on recent maps.

Good guessing, and good hunting ]]> Wed, 5 Nov 2008 23:03:42 Apollo http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1225319928/ http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1225319928/#num1 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:38:48 The Fox http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1225314523/ http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1225314523/#num1
And whats the one in the picture masthead of this website?  

Thanks]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:08:43 iain http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1225064549/ http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1225064549/#num1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31800969@N02/2975612157/in/pool-secretscotland/

...........any ideas ?

Apparently during the War, the Park was some kind of army vehicle depot, and as it's some lump 'o metal, I'm not surprised they left it there !

If anyone is interested to see it, it is located here....

55°38'34.28"N
  4°39'15.86"W]]> Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:42:29 HillmanImp http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1224871503/ http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/forum/forum/m-1224871503/#num1
Stationed at Kinnaird House were around two hundred Polish soldiers as well as fifty Polish officers. Overall in command was General Stanislaw Maczek - Kinnaird House was his main Headquarters, and is described as the headquarters of the Polish Army in Scotland.

Find also more info here http://members.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=joeandmorag

I suggest you use that address rather than the one given within the eBay page, it will spare you the irritation of the military music on the badly designed site which has no immediately obvious MUTE button to silence the din. Fine the first time, but why the site designer should think visitors would want to have the same (long) piece of music blaring at them on EVERY visit is very poor design without an immediately usable mute. Maybe a web site from someone called CheapWebPresence is not the best idea. Shame - the content is wasted by the unstoppable music, and inability to toggle it off on later visits - not everyone has a volume knob and has to click and find the Windows volume control.]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:05:03 Apollo