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Some great photos here, from collection of man who used to live at Luggiebank. Haven't gone through them all - lots of flowers etc - but some good shots of Kildrum Farm being re-built as Peggie's shop / Clydesdale Bank / YMCA, etc. Don't think these have been posted on this thread before ? http://ww...

Glesga_Steve Thanks for the link. I knew most of the stuff on that website, but still a few things I didn't. Including where the name Red Burn "may" have come from. Other things I didn't realise was that the ditch around the front of Cumbernauld House is actually a ha ha. Never occurred to...

Icecube Obviously the whole watershed issue, as it drains out of Glencryan and further west towards the Luggie, is more complicated than I realised. With hindsight, I might have paid more attention to watersheds during geography lessons at Cumby High had they just taken us around the back and shown ...

#3 PS - Viaduct / Towe Hill Ha. Just did a google search, and here it is ... archeological record for Towe Hill ! Now I know. It was damaged during viaduct construction, but not made then. But it is an artificial mound. http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/45820/details/cumbernauld+towe+hill/ Where ...

#4 Notes from the maps I love old maps. And a few things jumped out at me today. On the 1898 map, I was looking for the stone cross at Cumbernauld House (no longer marked) and for the standing stone again - because the newer maps get more accurate, even though they also record what has since changed...

#3 Viaduct. Yes, I did mean walking under the railway viaduct. And I reckon from your map that "the mound" I was referring to might well be "Towe Hill" (if I have read the name from the map properly?) ? That is quite exciting. It means it was a known and mapped feature, to the po...

#2 Limekilns I know the foundations you mean, on the zig zag path. Never really thought much about them over the years. Looked like a small cottage (but and ben). They are marked on the left hand side, going down, on the 1859, 25 inch map (1:2500), as a roofed building, but sadly not named. Think th...

PPM I'm going to cut this into a few (short !) responses, to try and keep several topics separate. #1 Standing stone. My recommendation is go visit the library and museum. Spent five minutes in latter once, and can't imagine ever going back! However, if I've remembered the stone correctly, then that...

Icecube Where does the Red Burn start? I tried to follow it as a kid, west upstream through the Glen then I just assumed when it turned south and disappeared under the road that it became the same burn running through Glencryan, up to the mines, across the (now) golf course and presumably came off F...

Hotel Rwanda. I was a basket case. Watched it on DVD with a clear eyed African chick who had to dry me out with the kleenex afterwards.

Kudos points that night !

Part the Second on the footpath... Again, I remember, in the Glen at Kildrum along from the railway sleeper staircase there was a wooden bridge, with railing, that crossed the Burn. This got washed out in a big 60's storm and CDC decided not to replace it, as they didn't want people crossing the rai...

Final thought, before I go back into my box... ... has anyone thought of photographing the remains of the footpath that ran across the New Town before it was built, and before it disappears any more ? The route from the Village up towards Palacerigg was pointed out to me by my dad, when I was a kid,...

Next... The OS maps of the Glencryan mine show "filter beds", as a large circle and rectangle, diagonally opposite the adit, this on the right facing back towards the station. No idea what these were for, or how they worked, but from their location I now reckon the circular one was probabl...

It's official. I'm now obsessed. Just spent Sunday morning studying the old OS maps online and think "we've" been looking for the second mine tunnel entrance in the wrong place. According to the 1859 OS, there was no mine / reservoir / tramline, and no woods either. It was all moorland tha...

Since you guys and gals are into hidden Cumbernauld, maybe you can help me with a couple of things I've always wanted to know ? When you walk down past the big house, with allotments on the right, and look to the left towards the village, you are looking at where the bowling green used to be. Which ...