AA Battery Bogside

Emplacement

A World War II anti-aircraft battery was located to the south of Langbank, Renfrewshire, on the south side of the River Clyde. Site number GSG9 (early), S9 (later). Part of the Clyde AA Defences, the site was known as Bogside or Gallahill Wood, and was near Bogside Farm.

The battery had four emplacements, reported to have been armed with 3.7-inch guns, a command post, two magazines, and an accommodation camp to the west.

Much remains of the site, although the command post and one of the magazines have now been buried.

Site visit

A site visit in 2007 confirmed the status of the reported remains. The magazine to the northeast is almost completely buried, while the command post has been completely buried, and the third emplacement has been cleared of its shelters and ammunition stores. The remaining emplacements are substantially complete, and the walls of the ready use ammunition stores still have the wooded pegs which would have supported the ammunition racks.

Possibly related to the battery and its former accommodation camp, or just associated with the farm, an old brick-clad water tank noted a short distance from the site, on the top of a nearby hill.