Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:47 pmpardon my ignorance... wots a bing?
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:47 pmPosted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:49 pmits the big pile of excavated rock / stone etc when you dig a mine.
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:41 pmSharon wrote:its the big pile of excavated rock / stone etc when you
dig a mine.
crusty_bint wrote:pardon my ignorance... wots a bing?
Thank’s Sharon... I’ve a couple of pictures I will up load tonight.
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Bings
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:26 pmYeah, there's the big one behind Westburn where they blew up a supposedly unexploded bomb the other week (!), but I heard that part of it cannot be removed due to badger setts.
There's also a smaller bing behind Newton, not so high as the Westburn one, but some of the old mine buildings still loiter amongst the trees.
There are also two out just a little towards Blantyre - the once enormous Bardykes on the main road, and Loanend Bing behind the old Dalton School. The railway line that once ran behind Hallside School terminated at the latter.
At the moment, I live on Woodlands Rd, near Charing Cross - not too far from your old Woolworths signs! Most of my family are still in Halfway and Westburn though.
There's a few nice old pics of the bings on Ed Boyle's site, with loads of other old Cambuslang pics. Have a look at:
http://www.boyle.ukpals.com/Cambuslang/Cambuslang.html
Bings might actually be a good topic for photos here, since most of them are now being removed, I think they're far more interesting places than the wee rows of twee houses that replace them!
Gary
There's also a smaller bing behind Newton, not so high as the Westburn one, but some of the old mine buildings still loiter amongst the trees.
There are also two out just a little towards Blantyre - the once enormous Bardykes on the main road, and Loanend Bing behind the old Dalton School. The railway line that once ran behind Hallside School terminated at the latter.
At the moment, I live on Woodlands Rd, near Charing Cross - not too far from your old Woolworths signs! Most of my family are still in Halfway and Westburn though.
There's a few nice old pics of the bings on Ed Boyle's site, with loads of other old Cambuslang pics. Have a look at:
http://www.boyle.ukpals.com/Cambuslang/Cambuslang.html
Bings might actually be a good topic for photos here, since most of them are now being removed, I think they're far more interesting places than the wee rows of twee houses that replace them!
Gary
Bings again
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:29 pmI'd forgotten, but for anyone curious what a bing is, there's a pic of one that I sent to Ed Boyle's site that I mentioned above, it looms large in the background!
http://www.boyle.ukpals.com/Cambuslang/ ... ailway.htm
Gary
http://www.boyle.ukpals.com/Cambuslang/ ... ailway.htm
Gary
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:48 pm....Ed Boyle site is good Gary. The Library has a massive map of the area with the old steelworks
The Bing, that’s the one in westburn right?
we must meet up
The Bing, that’s the one in westburn right?
we must meet up
Bings
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:41 pmI'll join you guys if your heading out there in the next week or so. Mod Foss, drop me a line when you've got a time and date. Preferably late nextweek or the early part of the following week would suit me grand. This weekend is a write off due to work. 
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 11:13 pmcrusty_bint wrote:pardon my ignorance... wots a bing?
"ah grasshopper"
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 8:06 amBing sings!! 
Photos
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 4:45 pmI've stuck a few pics of this area onto a Yahoo photos page, if anyone is interested. Most of the pics are of industrial sites just prior to and during redevelopment. A few bings, farms, the old Hallside Steelworks site, Hallside Primary School (old and new, under construction) and various other bits and pieces from my various dog walks there.
Most of the photos are from Hallside/Drumsagard, with a few of Westburn/Halfway/Newton/Gilbertfield Castle etc.
The photos range from about late 80s to 2000, and are all scans, didn't have a digital cam till last year!
Apologies for the quality and file size of some of them, they were taken with various cheap cameras over the years, from 110 to point-and-shooty type 35mm, and even an old disk camera! And my scanning and Photoshopping skills are not what they could be, hence the bad blends and the 600k files in some earlier efforts! Sometimes, it's just easier to sellotape two pics together than try to join them in Photoshop!
The address is:
http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/gar ... /my_photos
Gary
Most of the photos are from Hallside/Drumsagard, with a few of Westburn/Halfway/Newton/Gilbertfield Castle etc.
The photos range from about late 80s to 2000, and are all scans, didn't have a digital cam till last year!
Apologies for the quality and file size of some of them, they were taken with various cheap cameras over the years, from 110 to point-and-shooty type 35mm, and even an old disk camera! And my scanning and Photoshopping skills are not what they could be, hence the bad blends and the 600k files in some earlier efforts! Sometimes, it's just easier to sellotape two pics together than try to join them in Photoshop!
The address is:
http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/gar ... /my_photos
Gary
Trig points
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:30 pmThere's some general information on trig pillars/points on this website, if anyone's interested:
http://bubl.ac.uk/org/tacit/tac/tac53/frompill.htm
http://bubl.ac.uk/org/tacit/tac/tac53/frompill.htm