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Rutherglen, Dalmarnock Bridge

Barrage Balloon Site (Second World War)

Site Name Rutherglen, Dalmarnock Bridge

Classification Barrage Balloon Site (Second World War)

Alternative Name(s) Clyde Aa Defences; Dalmarnock Road

Canmore ID 209433

Site Number NS66SW 824

NGR NS 6177 6249

NGR Description NS c. 6177 6249

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council South Lanarkshire
  • Parish Rutherglen (South Lanarkshire)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District City Of Glasgow
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

NS66SW 824 c. 6177 6249

A barrage balloon mooring site has been identified from a wartime RAF oblique air photograph (No.1 CAM oblique, x905, flown 21 October 1941) situated in an area of open ground immediately S of the Dalmarnock Bridge(NS66SW 102). The mooring site was removed during the post-war period and the site has subsequently been built over by a block of offices.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), February 2002.

Activities

Field Visit (20 April 2017)

Nothing is now visible in a car park connected with a tyre business of a World War Two Barrage Balloon anchoring site, which is shown on an RAF photograph (No. 1 CAM oblique, x905) taken on 21 October 1941. The site was one of an extensive network that protected the population and industry of central Glasgow and the Clyde from low flying enemy bombers.

Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK) 20 April 2017.

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