Hidden Cumbernauld.

[craigx]

PS. I don't know anything about an old whisky bond down Condorrat.
I'll need to have a look at some old maps.

i think it may have been a wood mill before it was a bond, as it shows on maps from 1864 as Wood Mill

it was between condorrat and mollinsburn, and must have been knocked down late 80's or early 90's

this is the only mention i can find on the internet, althought ive found a few maps where it is shown as warehouses

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl ... m-1.410891

it was here 55.926864,-4.03666 on google maps, right behind my marker

the concrete fence posts from the perimeter are all still there, and there a few piles or rubble too...

and here is a picture



craigx

[purplepantman]

I know where you mean now although I've never been to it.

There's a similar, modern day pic of it on Geograph...

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1613182

...but who knows where you'd get older (in it's heyday) pics?

Theres nothing on RCAHMS about it.

Don't bother going up to Cumbernauld library and asking.
The entire local studies section has been put in storage "through the back" till they "decide what they're
going to do with it". ??? Does Condorrat not have it's own village library? They might have something.

[Icecube]

Thats a braw Geograph

I wondered about the remains of that fence. Was it a bonded compound? or a barrel storage yard?

Condorrat Library has one (yes, one) book related to local history about the village being a 'hotbed of radicalism' (in reality one man was a radical) and that was donated by the 1820 Society recently.
As PPM stated the North Motherweellshire Soviet have binned the local studies section of the main library in favour of a table displaying the Glasgow Herald.
You could ask Lenziemill archives if they have anything, but be quick before that is relocated to ........... aye ye guessed right - Motherweell.

[Angus Mor]

Same tunnel different time of the year.

[BrigitDoon]

Stalagmites of ice?

[Angus Mor]

Stalagmites of ice?

Yep

[Angus Mor]

Abronhill Farm 1961, I got this photo from a man who was born there had to be scanned in four bits and joined together.

[mjw]

Great picture Angus, here's the order for demolition from 66, as featured in the free booklet 'Cumbernauld through the ages', strange it only details the outbuildings in red for demolition, did the main farmhouse survive for longer?

[Knightmare]

Abronhill Farm 1961, I got this photo from a man who was born there had to be scanned in four bits and joined together.

WHAT???? What a shocking way to come in to the world!!

[Doorstop]

[craigx]

dont know if any of you guys from the nauld remember or know about the blue pool?

im talking about the weird blue coloured pool between condorrat and annathill.... we used to walk over to it on sunny days about 15 years ago, went swimming in it, no idea what it was, or what was in it to make it blue ....


bit of a crap phone picture of it ....



craigx

[Beavis64]

I used to hang about there years ago with my mates messing about being teenagers.
No idea why it was blue though, maybe something toxic was dumped in it....

[thegazman]

dont know if any of you guys from the nauld remember or know about the blue pool?

about 15 years ago, went swimming in it, no idea what it was, or what was in it to make it blue ....




craigx

15 years ago, went swimming in it, no idea what it was, or what was in it

[Icecube]

Is it this one?


http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1555810

Or is it now one of the trout fisheries?

[scotty]

Saw this on YouTube when looking at the video posted earlier in this thread, did a quick search for the link and couldn't find it so dont think this has been posted before. From a Channel 4 program, all about demolition and has some interesting views on the then plans for the new Antonine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wH_muu7rUY

Cheers
Scotty