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mjw wrote:Anyone know what this is? is it a lint pond? must've walked past this hundreds of times and never noticed it, it's near the mine entrance, the walls are made of bricks.
Sharon wrote:Ooo now this hascaught my eye, as looking at the size of the structure it reminds me of the Blue Pool in Torwood...
Icecube wrote:It sure does Jinty, its a private dwelling restored by a previous owner, one (the late) Hugo B. Miller who was also a local historian of note.
http://www.falkirklocalhistorysociety.co.uk/home/index.php?id=68
The house is situated off the Walton Road just at the railway bridge.
jinty wrote:Icecube wrote:It sure does Jinty, its a private dwelling restored by a previous owner, one (the late) Hugo B. Miller who was also a local historian of note.
http://www.falkirklocalhistorysociety.co.uk/home/index.php?id=68
The house is situated off the Walton Road just at the railway bridge.
Thanks Icecube, i stay 5 mins from it and knew nothing of it being there, think this calls for a wee trip to investigate!!
Angus Mor wrote:This is the limekiln next to the Red Burn near the arches.
Lucky Poet wrote:RCAHMS only have a mandate to record details of historically notable things, so I doubt if they'd be able to do much. Historic Scotland are more likely to be useful.
appleofglasgow wrote:I visited the centre today and took about 100 or so images of various parts including the library and car park of Phase 1.
I also took about 10-20 minutes of HD (well, 720p) footage of the centre. The library area, various ramps, an entire walkthrough of the car park area...
If you go to the library floor, and go to the lift the furthest away from the library (next to the ramp), and hit the lift to go to level 4 (or whatever the top floor is) it will take you up.
When you get there however, there is a small area that is accessible but the rest is locked up (sadly like other parts of the centre). Very creepy and gave me a strange feeling being there. Would recommend going all the way up for a nosey.
Any way at all to get anywhere near the original apartments of the centre?
Icecube wrote:jinty wrote:Icecube wrote:It sure does Jinty, its a private dwelling restored by a previous owner, one (the late) Hugo B. Miller who was also a local historian of note.
http://www.falkirklocalhistorysociety.co.uk/home/index.php?id=68
The house is situated off the Walton Road just at the railway bridge.
Thanks Icecube, i stay 5 mins from it and knew nothing of it being there, think this calls for a wee trip to investigate!!
Just remember it is a private dwelling.
mjw wrote:Even though up until quite recently I thought those offices were always such, aren't they the original apartments? I did a training course up there about 15 years back and inside they're like a split level villa with stairs just inside the front door that go up and down. Incidently there was a planning notice in the Cumbie News about 8-10 years ago wanting to convert them back into flats but nothing came of it, seems if you can't actually get into them now what's the point of keeping them? I hope when the day comes to knock it all down we get a chance to roam about reminiscing about lost features like the rooftop chippy that i think burned down in the early/mid 80s and the bricked up road tunnel under central way where you emerged in what became phase 4.
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