davieboy wrote:gap74 wrote:If you were going to take pics, then it probably is best to wait till at least September now - I've known about the place for about 15 years and the level of tree growth in that time has been quite something, couldn't believe it when I visited again recently after an absence of a few years.
But any time of year is good for just a plain old poke around, and pics of the interiors of the buildings are probably better taken at this time of year, since some of them are fairly prone to a good few inches of groundwater sitting in them.
Gary
davieboy wrote:gap74 wrote:If you were going to take pics, then it probably is best to wait till at least September now - I've known about the place for about 15 years and the level of tree growth in that time has been quite something, couldn't believe it when I visited again recently after an absence of a few years.
But any time of year is good for just a plain old poke around, and pics of the interiors of the buildings are probably better taken at this time of year, since some of them are fairly prone to a good few inches of groundwater sitting in them.
Gary
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[quote="gap74"]Hi John,
I lived in Westburn till I was about 13, then moved to Halfway in 1988, where I'm currently back at after a spell in the west end. Most of my family are from Westburn though, those that are still alive still live there.
Interesting story about the blood poisoning, reminded me of the current sorry state of the land where St Charles' Chapel stood.
Went down to FinMeOot last week, was sad to see the place being used as a compound by a contractor of Newtwork Rail for repairs to the railway tunnel over the Rotten Calder. I do hope they make a half decent job of restoring it after they've gone - took some shots for comparison:
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I was born in Caldervale Terrace 1935. Attended St. Charles School Nicknamed Fin-Me-Oot, Caldervale Terrace was in two parts 20 houses in each of the two buildings. We had to walk to school on the wee path that passed through Newton Pit. When we returned from school we would make for the swing park as you came through the Bridge
where the Network rail have their compound. That was the ashy pitch where we played football. The Miners Welfare
stood in that bit of land. It was over two miles to Uddingston where we went to the cinema you had to walk as there was no bus service . We would walk to Newton where we got the bus for Cambuslang and tram to Glasgow. My parents moved house to Blantyre just after the pits were nationalised. STVs news program "HERE AND NOW"
went to Caldervale and newsman Bill Tennant interviewed the last family,Billy & Mary Green, left in the terrace as it was being demolished back in 1962. I have been looking for 16mm film of Caldervale taken by Lanarkshire County Council, but no luck so fare. I have managed a collection of stills, only a couple of the building,most are of people
in and around Fin me oot. We put together a quick video back in the 80s and hoping to update it when this film might turn up. The Newsreel from Here & Now was said to have been destroyed in a fire that swept through the STV studio.
News Papers published a dispute with BT over the one and only Phone Box in Fin-Me-Oot. Every house had its own inside toilet,no bath. The sewage system was in a reed bed next to the Calder. And that photograph you have showing Redlees was where the RAF had a Barrage Ballon. German bombers used to follow the River Clyde and turn around Motherwell We would then take cover in the air raid shelter as shrapnel rained down when the big guns opened fire on the aircraft as they made their bomb run on Clydebank.
Hope this info is of use .
CAPTAN ( without the i)