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aardee · Buttered roll Joined: 27 Mar 2009 Posts: 9

hi jock i remember the bridges you mean there in the woods further up closer to the dams.if you follow the river heading back down from the dams they where about 300 yards down one was about 10 or 12 feet. the brick wall supports had had griffiti on it pink floyd in white paint. there was a smaller bridge further down and inbetween them there was a large steel object thatlooked like the chimmney of an old steam train but was actually an overflow pipe from the dams thats why the bridge was so high incase they had to use it dont think they ever did though. so jock does that sound like the bridges you remember

Jock58 · Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:02 pm Post subject:

Hi ardee
The area i think i remember is defiantly behind Darnley farm.
I have already told the wife,
I'm taking here out for the day next time we get up the road

Jock58

jamesa · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:01 am Post subject: Re: Barrhead Dams

jamstaruk · Buttered roll Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 1

stumbled across this by accident but enjoyed the stories and pics i was brought up in priesthill from 1972-1995 supprised no mention of "auldy" was always some grafiti by him around the dams lol

take me back to the days of glue sniffers and mods

Stuball · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:52 pm Post subject:

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Alex Glass · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:06 pm Post subject:

johnmcn · Roll and chips Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 59

Took a trip to the dams today with my son and took a doner through the woods..While i was there i came across an old bridge that Jock mentioned a while back regarding a ruin on the other side.Didn't cross it but took a piccie to put Jocks mind at rest that there is a bridge somewhere between the Old Waulkmill house ruin and the dam...

Jock58 · Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject:

wee minx · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:58 pm Post subject:

Went a walk up the dams yesterday, and great weather too. Tried to walk right round the lower resevoir, but got stuck almost at the railway bridge

It's a great place to visit, but also to be aware. A few dodgy people hanging about, at one point I had to back track through the woods when I saw a blue tracky appear as if startled by me. I didn't want to know what he was doing so turned round fast and went back

. Also a few buckie drinkers along the pathway, but they were friendly and just out for a wee picnic really

If you are going there and want to be where I took that pic, you will need real good waterproof walking boots, the coos leave right big holes in the fields. At one point I turned round to see what my dog was moaning at and all I could see was her wee head sticking up from in one of the deep cow hoof prints