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sorry.....part about farmhouse that became a masonic lodge should read LEFT, going up Boydstone Road...

Does this help find the location?

yes, Alex, this is an old photo right enough and does show the areas concerned, in particular the ambulance depot, and the access routes from Bellarmine and Burnbrae, to the small clump of trees hiding the cottage....it also clearly shows BOTH water towers, and the sites of the POW foundations.....!
What is the date of this photo...?

At a guess I would say mid 60's fourbytwo.

Glad it helps.

Thanks.....thought as much
Clearly shows the NSB at Cowglen, the NSB parking areas, the ambulance depot and the sites around the Cowglen hospital, I saw a photo almost identical to this a few years ago, only this one shows the land before the NSB, and that would be a real eye-opener, if i could remember where I saw that photo.

German POW's at the Peat Rd roundabout in 1945


http://pollok.eveningtimes.co.uk/area/pollok-housing-estate-1945.html

Hello again Benny.

That POW photo was taken at the site of what would become the Bundy scheme: the sub-station directly behind, and mostly obscured by, the guard on the left is still there, beside the Brock Burn.

Here's a crop from an old negative I dug out of my reject box, hence its poor condition; it dates from 1972. It shows what looks like the water tower at Cowglen mentioned earlier on this thread. You can also see the cranes working on Phase 2 of the National Savings Bank:-

Hi I am looking for information about a US army camp located west of Crookston Castle and to the north and south of the Levern just west of the White Cart. I was looking for Dugald too as he seems very knowledgeable

I have just found an article by a German POW re POW Camps in the Glasgow area. Camp 188 was in Johnston. Seems there were smaller "Satellite" camps mainly in old army camps. He talks about an Italian camp at Duntocher. He talks about after the war ended working on a housing development in the Clydebank area. Digging sewage trenches and house foundations. He notes the local workers were concerned over the employment of these POWs on very low rates of pay. Undercutting local labour! But he found not much "hostility" towards them as a result of the Clydebank Blitz. More the concerns of the local workers regarding doing work which possibly a local man could do.

I have been reading a transcript of an ex German POW's time in the Glasgow area. He mentions friends from the Netherhouse Camp. In his article he says that some of the POWs at Netherhouse were ex Afrika Korps men who had been transferred to the USA. In 1945 they were shipped back from the US to Netherhouse. By 1947 most of them had gone back to Germany. There was a "grading system" of who got sent home first. Hitler Youth and Nazi party members were graded highest and last to go home.