Alex .. I think you are totaly right. I usualy have difficulty remembering my previous nights shenanagens in the west end or wherever... but its amazing what a fresh pair of eyes can see so will go urban exploring..
HI John
I think the area i was talking about is a little upstream you can see a little area of white water behind the Kennomeat plant (What is that now?)
Maybe thats the weir.
Jock58
Kennomeat was bought by Spillars who in turn was recently bought by Nestle purina.And like just about every company in Barrhead that gets purchased by an International they shut it down.You may remember the town as a place that supplied jobs for all the surrounding areas but nowadays it's more of a commuter town for paisley and Glasgow..
Think i read recently that bar East Renfrewshire council (newish offices built next to the sports centre) the largest employer was Tesco in Kelbourne st (next to the old railway arches)
Anyway the old factory still stands derelict,they were hoping that people would let parts of it,the council have set aside land across from Leggat (the old high rise)and beside Spillars but with the current economic climate i cant see it working just yet.
Times they are a changing
Both my mum & Dad worked at the Kennomeat and i had quiet a few friends that left school & went to work at Shanks,
I remember my mum telling me that when some of the women fancied a break they would jam a can in the conveyor lines and everything would stop till the maintenance came out & fixed it.
But one day it went wrong and the plant was down for days, several women got the sack for that one.
The best job my mum had in Barrhead though was in the ticket office of the George cinima. I used to walk up there and get in for free.
I knew the old bingo on Cross Arthurlie was a cinema but didn't know about the George on main st..
Opened 1911 by George Urie Scott, on ground originally used a cooperage.
This replaced his earlier Barrhead Picture Playhouse, which had been converted from a roller skating rink.
The Pavilion was rebuilt 1935 by McNair & Elder.
Renamed George from 1969; closed 1977.
Later demolished in the mid 1980s.
Cant remember ever seeing this in my walks to the swimming when i was young,whereabouts on main st was it?
I knew the old bingo on Cross Arthurlie was a cinema but didn't know about the George on main st..
Cant remember ever seeing this in my walks to the swimming when i was young,whereabouts on main st was it?
Sorry but i can't pinpoint it for you.
It was at the far end of the main st (North side) I remember you passed a big church just before you got to it.
I was not too far from the train station as i remember getting on a train once from there.
Looking at the map i would say it was between Gedloch Pl & Cross arthurlie St
Somewhere on that frontage.
Jock58
Gedloch place should be Cochrane street (the one with the masons on it),dont know whats up with Google maps
Right anyway thats flats nowadays,was derelict ground as far as i can remember and i figured it had to do with the old rail line that ran behind the Arthurlie inns..I'll maybe ask some of my native borrhiedonians (or whatever they call themselves )if they remember it
Found this...Hope it hasnt already been discussed apologies if it has
AA Battery Nitshill
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A World War II anti-aircraft battery was sited in Nitshill, to the south of Glasgow. Site number GSG4 (early), S4 (later). Part of the Clyde AA Defences, the site was also known as Darnley.
The battery was equipped with four emplacements, armed with 3.7-inch guns, and a GL Radar mat to the wesr, An accommodation camp lay to the south. Two further emplacements were later added the battery. The site was visible in aerial photography taken in 1946, when the two additional emplacements were noted lying northwest and southeast of the usual arc of four emplacements. Records show that six guns had been provided by 91943, but that the GL Radar Mk IA had been removed. Some 42 huts, mostly Nissen, could be seen in the area between Corslett Road and the Aurs Burn to the south.
There are no surviving remains of the battery, the site and surrounding area has been occupied by a housing development.
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I knew the old bingo on Cross Arthurlie was a cinema but didn't know about the George on main st..
)if they remember it