Hawkhill Farm

[Vivc113]

Does anyone have any more info or pix of Hawkhill Farm?? Sorry.. I don't have much time this morn to look into it.

Seems to be a listed building anyway.

[Meg]

Does anyone have any more info or pix of Hawkhill Farm?? Sorry.. I don't have much time this morn to look into it.

Seems to be a listed building anyway.

Edit - moved your post to its own topic Viv, so people can respond without going off topic for Stevenson - today in history. Meg

[Penny Tray]

The photograph in the following link has, I think, been posted before but I don't think I had fully appreciated how large an 'anti-aircraft' station it had been during the second world war, presumably to protect Ardeer Factory. I hadn't noticed either, the number of building erected in front of the farm.

https://canmore.org.uk/collection/910902

[5siamese7]

Does anyone have any more info or pix of Hawkhill Farm?? Sorry.. I don't have much time this morn to look into it.

Seems to be a listed building anyway.

Viv as I remember it was only the byre that was listed and it was a grade three. All gone i'm afraid.

[Vinegarjoe]

As kids, passing by Hawkhill, every now and then a really loud bang could be heard. We, as kids, all reckoned it was the slaughterhouse. Was this true or just kid's stuff????

[wellparkno9]

they used to use blasting at Hawkhill cemetery

[John Donnelly]

they used to use blasting at Hawkhill cemetery

Now that's interesting Sam. I never heard, or heard of, any explosions at Hawkhill.
And as far as I know, there are no rocks under the surface there that might need it.
Tommy Milligan who was the gravedigger there was a good friend of my father and I knew him well too.
Never heard any mention of anything like that.
A curious JD.

[wellparkno9]

I heard years ago when a fellow Birch was the heid yin there that they used to blast at the cemetery.they had to get some one from ICI or some one with a shot firers certificate to do the blasting.any body know about this?

[John Donnelly]

Birch was the head gravedigger before Tommy Milligan. He later became the head gardener and caretaker in Auchenharvie.
JD.

[hahaya2004]

they used to use blasting at Hawkhill cemetery

I was wondering if some (new?) part of the cemetery was near Hawkhill Farm. If so they might have been getting rid of some of the foundations left over from the WWII heavy anti aircraft battery.

[5siamese7]

Birch was the head gravedigger before Tommy Milligan. He later became the head gardener and caretaker in Auchenharvie.
JD.

I think JD that would be the old man Birch. His son Tam lived in the cottage and was the head gravedigger In the eighties. A lot of rock was hit in the cemetery and blasting took place there. The artillery battery was not near the cemetery. However perhaps blasting was taking place in the Dubbs quarry.