Bellshill had 32 pubs back in the day for Mossend Cross to Bellshill Cross it makes me sad how many farms have closed and how the teachers belted me with a thick leather belt at the age 5yr
1976 a friend and myself walking over the Clyde Bridge a guy on a motorbike drives buy and a lot of money,pound notes, five pound notes , ten pound notes, etc fly of his bike and onto the road gratefully accepted by my friend and I.
I remember as a boy in the late 60s down exploring that area abandoned out buildings. A brick pools filled with water.It was a fascinating place. Down Hattonrigg Road and into the right.
I wish there was a way to see exactly where everything would have been. I remember the slaughter house in one of the maps. I can even see Hattonrigg Road. Would it be fair to say the A721 runs along where the train line was? Im really not good with maps
Thanks for childhood memories lived in Whitehill and often during summer school holidays would walk through the Blackwood's to the Lido with the kids from our street. The Clyde at this point was dangerous to swim in due to strong undercurrents in particular the other side of the brig. The Lido was very popular in the summer months and the little sandy beach was well used.
That's only a wee part of the bing we used to call the Jelly Mountain when we were kids. They removed most of it when they built the business park but it was huge. The Railway line used to go down the side of the maternity and we used to build dens on it. Rockburn park was built on the old rail yard.
My first childhood wonderland, wher I first fell in love with the river Clyde, my father set me on my way to have a love of fishing its many beutifull streams, sadly his life was cut short when I was 16, thanks to his being a coal miner, we was a haulage man at Bothwell Pit, during the General Strike, we was asked by the Pit owners to cross the picket line, to repair the haulage rope that brought the coal to the surface, but being a man of principle he refused, thats why he got the sack when the strike was over. He was down the mine whe he was 14 years old. Proud of him still. Loved you Dad.
Hello James, I am loving the videos - particularly this one. This was a special place to me as a kid and an even more special one as an adult. My name is Martin Coyne and I moved away form the 'hill over 25 years ago. I currently live in Bournemouth. I'm looking to trace a guy who has the same surname as you. I knew him as Chunky but his given name was Peter Marshall (I think). He will be roughly the same age as me, so in his fifties. If you could help I would be much obliged. The Roundal, in my humble opinion, is a megalithic site with a clear view of Tinto. It shoud be preserved at all costs.
Hopefully we will get more videos when it is safer to go outside. They are very unique. The music is very unusual but it fits. Who performed this piece of music?
Ive Just discovered Sir Winston Churchill had holiday on those grounds,, in large cottage adjacent to the main mansion. Probably walked the estate in area filmed, and into the hidden glen. He was a scots MP for 14 years.
Hi James, do you know if this was the only mine in Bellshill / Bothwell? My family (McNair) were from there and were miners going back to at least the 1800's but I never knew much about their pit life apart from it was a hard life and plenty of poverty. You will see my great uncle Thomas McNair on rear panel of the WWI war memorial. Great video by the way.
@@tazman2150 ahh ! i have lost a couple myself that way. I lost about £350 worth of gear last month drone, reciver, battery sd card and camera up at the crinan canal same thing went blind so i had to cut the power spent 4 hours trudging around the mud flats trying to find it but no luck its a horrible feeling had a full days worth of footage skimming up and down the river and canal i was gutted but these things happen 😁👍
Stunning Video. Absolutely Amazing. No way can this area be allowed to be developed. This vast woodland are the lungs of Calderbank. Take a walk and see. Stop any development.
Yes. It was part of the Bellshill line coming from the Bothwell Collierys to the south and with the Rosehall branch joining just to the north heading to Whifflet.
Love all your RU-vid videos, but this one's really enchanting. I'm sure there are many "new residents" of Bellshill like myself who'd love a tour of places like this to get a better understanding of where they live.
So far...Now that its been dry since the lock down I took a walk up to the mound.. Apart from being a local drinking den for the local Wildlife and attempts at birth Control this what I uncovered... Lying around among the undergrowth,other than Buckie Bottles,cans and condoms, etc, are layers of Railway ballast. Also in among the bushes are broken lintels and blocks which have the remains of drill holes in them. Have a look at any railway bridge in Bellshill and you see the remnants of these same drill holes. The NLS maps do show the Tunnel and later it removed. Please bear in mind that to survey an area is not like Google Earth..It took years The Surveyors would keep coming back to the same area , return to the site and add or remove some detail. This is an extract from the Ordance Survey Name Book of the time "The Tunnel near this, of the Wishaw & Coltness Section of the Caledonian Railway, is being cut through for the purpose of doing away with it. It has been worked for that purpose for 2 years & it is probable that the same will be taken before it is completed. The Tunnel was condemmed as dangerous." The best view which shows why the mound is a railway dump is to look at it from the new footbridge into Carnbroe looking over the M8
Thanks Jimbo great info. In a earlier comment you said the tunnel was removed in 1886. I've seen multiple maps from before that time that shows the mount and the tunnel, one of which is in the video from 1860. How could that be if the mount was a product of the tunnels demise?
Hi James..These all refer to the 6 inch to mile maps of the area..The first map states that it was surveyed in 1859 and printed in 1864 and shows the tunnel and the Mound... The 2nd map surveyed in 1897 , published in 1899 shows the Mound and tunnel removed. The Wishaw and Coltness Railway Company built the line from Holytown to Whifflet in 1834 and constructed the Holytown Tunnel. The Wishaw and Coltness was taken over by the Caledonian Railway in February 1848. Since the Wishaw and Coltness operated on a 4 foot 6 inch gauge major works were needed..Removal of the Tunnel was included in the takeover Act. Holytown tunnel was described as low and wood lined and condemned and removal was completed by 1855 . 4 years before the survey date on the map of 1859/1864. The Ordnance Survey Name book stated that the removal work had been going on for 2 years and another 2 years work would be required. So, I guess work started in @1851 The Contractor undertaking the removal, Alexander Wilson took the Caledonian to court as the ground turned out to be rock not earth as the Caledonian stated This now makes me think that what I thought was railway Ballast is the rubble of the tunnel removal. One last point on the Mound...The Mound is at the highest point of the present cutting and the old Tunnel...The Tunnel would have be opened up from the top down..Old prints of Navvies show how this would be done by wheeling barrows up a banking and being dumped in a pile where the Mound is now
This was my mother's bank in Bellshill. She would have been very sad to see it go, as am I. I always think of her when I pass by it when visiting Scotland. Bellshill is my hometown. Always will be. Great video. Very unfortunate thing to happen.
