Charlie Endell Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Also a memorial to Shankly recently unveiled in Muirkirk. Looks poor. I'll have a butcher's next time there's something of interest happening at Kames. I'm still at a loss as to why there's a caravan park in Muirkirk...Muirkirk juniors old ground is still there up by Kames - the brick base of the stand and one (possibly both) goalpost remain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 There's a set of abandoned places here http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/index.html It includes Glenbuck, Bothwellhaugh and St Kilda... I was trying to locate a deserted village in Ayrshire but could not find it on this site though it refers to Ayrshire villages (separately from Glenbuck) I liked the reference to the group Friends of Riccarton Junction (now defunct) It also links to a site on abandoned (Scottish) islands http://www.lonely-isles.com/Abandoned.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 There's a book on the lost mining villages of the Doon Valley http://iwc2.labouronline.org/170796/uploads/0048d29e-8c02-abb4-89fb-8e7d1c7324d2.pdf An example, Lethanhill '...the last resident leaving in 1954' http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3326975 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) There's a memorial to Bob just off the Muirkirk to Douglas road. To Bill? My mum grew up in Lethanhill, a similarly abandoned Ayrshire mining village in the hills above Patna. All that's left now is the war memorial and the school house where the family stayed (my grandpa taught at the junior school there)... Edit...exile posted that link just as i was typing the above. Spooky! Edited October 21, 2014 by Toepoke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of Paisley Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Charlie Endell - poor man's Tam Weir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Extreme0 Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 You might want to check Abandoned Scotland for latest pictures of places that have been left for nature to take hold of. Their facebook is where they update their timeline with other people's images so it's mostly update from there. https://www.facebook.com/AbandonedScotland http://www.abandonedscotland.com/blog/ Welcome to the Metro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 To Bill? My mum grew up in Lethanhill, a similarly abandoned Ayrshire mining village in the hills above Patna. All that's left now is the war memorial and the school house where the family stayed (my grandpa taught at the junior school there)... Edit...exile posted that link just as i was typing the above. Spooky! Er, Bill - getting awfy muddled these days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Charlie Endell - poor man's Tam Weir. I may well be, but at least I make an effort to explore Scotland. Don't think you've managed beyond Hunters Quay in Dunoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motherwell Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Bothwellhaugh My dad was born there in 1932 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 It's no longer abandoned but I was reading an article in the Record at the weekend (I know I know, it was the only Scottish paper I could get in Cumbria) about this place... http://www.britanniapanopticon.org I'd heard about the history of the venue in the past (Stan Laurel etc.) but I never realise it still existed. Pretty fascinating! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Bothwellhaugh I wonder if the Commonwealth triathletes realised what they were swimming over?!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottincarlisle Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 It's no longer abandoned but I was reading an article in the Record at the weekend (I know I know, it was the only Scottish paper I could get in Cumbria) about this place... http://www.britanniapanopticon.org I'd heard about the history of the venue in the past (Stan Laurel etc.) but I never realise it still existed. Pretty fascinating! Did it not feature on the BBC restoration programme a few years back ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of Paisley Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Charlie - I was actually trying to be complimentary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flure Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Did it not feature on the BBC restoration programme a few years back ? It was the subject of a lecture at the Old Glasgow Club last season. http://www.oldglasgowclub.org.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northernscum Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badbea Depending on how far back you want to go, this is a very interesting place to visit. The hike from the A9 is well recommended to get an idea of just how desolate and hard life must have been here.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flat Earth Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Pretty much the entire highlands and islands. There are empty glens throughout the highlands full of abandoned townships. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonmk Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 We used to stay 2 seconds from Carlingnose Battery, and played there all the time, playing soldiers in a barracks was amazing, right on the edge of a cliff too. Been developed into houses now, sad to see a bit of my history disappear...well, not literally, but I can't go and make machine gun noises there again! Some images of it now http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=16163#.VEbPkt2kqK0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flure Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 We used to stay 2 seconds from Carlingnose Battery, and played there all the time, playing soldiers in a barracks was amazing, right on the edge of a cliff too. Been developed into houses now, sad to see a bit of my history disappear...well, not literally, but I can't go and make machine gun noises there again! Some images of it now http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=16163#.VEbPkt2kqK0 And why not? Growing old is inevitable. Growing up is optional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 To Bill? My mum grew up in Lethanhill, a similarly abandoned Ayrshire mining village in the hills above Patna. All that's left now is the war memorial and the school house where the family stayed (my grandpa taught at the junior school there)... Edit...exile posted that link just as i was typing the above. Spooky! spooky! though more so if someone said they were part of the (now defunct) Riccarton Junction appreciation society... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flure Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 spooky! though more so if someone said they were part of the (now defunct) Riccarton Junction appreciation society... Aw, that's hard lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Charlie - I was actually trying to be complimentary I know . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huddersfield Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 I heard about this place when I was visiting Calum's Road a couple of years ago but never got chance to look for it. http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/skye/screapadal.shtml Also not sure if it's totally abandoned as I think some of the houses might be let out as holiday cottages but there's Scarp (home of the rocket mail experiment), just off Lewis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreimack Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 And why not? Growing old is inevitable. Growing up is optional. Indeed, wise words to live by. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonmk Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 And why not? Growing old is inevitable. Growing up is optional. Not sure the residents would take to me running through their gardens shouting "uhuhuhuhuhuhuh! I hit you! You're dead!" It'd be like the standard scenes in Simon Pegg's films...crashing through the fences Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonmk Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 And why not? Growing old is inevitable. Growing up is optional. Not sure the residents would take to me running through their gardens shouting "uhuhuhuhuhuhuh! I hit you! You're dead!" It'd be like the standard scenes in Simon Pegg's films...crashing through the fences Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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