AA Battery Bishopbriggs

A World War II anti-aircraft battery was sited near Bishopbriggs, Cadder, Glasgow. Site number GNG2 (early), N2 (later). Part of the Clyde AA Defences, the battery was also known as Rusheyhill or Rushyhill.

Records indicate the battery was equipped with four emplacements, 4.5-inch guns, and an accommodation camp to the south.

There are no surviving remains of the battery or camp evident on the site, with demolition and clearance having taken place during the 1980s.

Postwar demolition

A local contribution reports that remains of the battery were extant into the 1970s, and that the position given by RCAHMS, and shown below, may lie to the south of the battery's former location:

Growing up in the area, I well remember the remains of this gun emplacement being visible in the 70s from the road. BUT I think you were looking in the wrong place - my memory puts them further north, and if you look at the aerial photo there is a possible site immediately north of the indicator.

I remember playing in the buildings as a child in the late seventies, very early eighties, the farmer's son was a friend of mine. On the walls inside one of the buildings were lists of ammunition, the number of rounds of each type. The buildings were demolished on request of the farmer as they were being used by vagrants.