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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

Stunning footage, I hope and pray that the people in charge take notice and act to protect this area for generations to come.

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.

Fascinating bit of footage thanks

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.

Was Babylon Drive in Bellshill around before 1990?

Hi James.... are you related to Sir William Marshall ?? Marshall, Ross and Munro Solicitors?

Spend every summer there and more coming from Whitehill swimming actually using the sewage pipe to dive into the water. Changed days 🤦‍♂️

NLC making the right decision 🙌 Never thought I'd say that.

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

You stopped uploading, James. Why?

...maps meaninglessly rushed sadly, this is merely a self-indulgent video/film to satiate ur vanity

Went for a walk thair a few months ago I played all over this area as a boy you could walk to Chapelhall

Very interesting

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.

It was always full of "Gentleman's" magazines as I remember.

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.

thats no a tornado thats an empire biscuit

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.

RMN training 1983-1986

2021...Still as lovely But more threatened by mans building on it.

"It's not the getting there, it's the getting back!"... Lovely scenery...

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.

My dad behind the wheel

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.

Is it

This sounds like Demi lavoto

This shit blew my pill speaker up in highschool

Is that beast still flying i would love to have a look at it to see the difference and how much tech has moved over the few years since you built it

Nice one, thanks for posting The mining heritage of Lanarkshire seems to be getting ether ignored or air brushed out of history.

It’s where all the auld miners used to take their dugs for a bath in the 60s . Happy memories 😍

I can remember my mum telling me about the Lido. She lived in Whitehill and used to go down to the Lido to play. They were happy times .

I love this kind of thing. Great history back to Covenanters war meeting pre battle of Bothwell Bridge nearby.

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.

Good stuff. Cheers for that - it's kind of what UA-cam should be about, I think!

Many walls at it?

It was a railway line at onetime I remember old jock's house nearby

I'm not sure it's their anymore I plated their as a boy

Thanks for the video love this area it be a shame for it too be wasted look what happened too viewpark glen

Superb.

Just beautiful. Keep them coming please. Just stay safe doing them.

It’s just confusing now

Love all your UA-cam 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.

Beautiful film

Searched for the music and stayed for the content

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

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.