by Cyclo2000 » Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:17 pm
I grew up in Earnock, Bourtree road, in the first phase built in the 60's. The pond your talking about being I'm supposing the one just before you get to the Limekiln at Parkneuk shown in the pictures? Locally it was known as "the 40 feet" and if yer mum found out you'd been there you'd get your arse tanned! It was at the time popularly supposed to be a flooded mineshaft.
The town refuse dump was just a bit further up Newhousemill road and that was another popular port of call when we were kids. Round the corner in Muttonhole road there was a reservoir that fed the town. It was filled in in the 80's after contaminated groundwater started seeping into it from the nearby landfills. If you went the length of Newhousemill road there was a wartime radar warning station on the left before you got to EK, now lost to landfill
In terms of limekilns, a short walk around Limekiln burns on the Strathaven road will as the name suggests reveal a few more. There are also several gun emplacements there and the remains of the curling pond with it's burn channelled roon the side.
There was a whacking great big bing hanging just above Meikle Earnock, it's now all houses!
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