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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 761227
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/761227
NS67SW 50 630 722
A barrage balloon depot and barracks are visible on a Luftwaffe aerial photograph taken in 1939.
Information from RCAHMS (KM) 8 August 1996.
This World War II barrage balloon depot and repair yard is situated to the E of Cadder Cemetery. The site is now occupied by a Prison and Driving Test Centre. Some original brick, concrete and wood structures survive although many new buildings have been constructed on site since the 1939-1945 war.
J Guy 2001; NMRS MS 810/11, Part 3, 237-8
The barrage balloon depot is visible on a wartime oblique air photograph (RAF No.1 CAM, x862, flown 21 October 1941). Visible as a series of sheds with rows of smaller huts and one large shed or hangar in the area now occupied by HM Prison, Low Moss. In the area to the E, across Crosshill Road, were a further four sheds with four circular barrage balloon mooring areas. This area is now occupied by the driving test centre.
The circular mooring pads are depicted on the current OS 1:10000 and 1:2500 maps.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), February 2003
NS 6300 7220 A programme of historic building recording was undertaken in August on the site of the former Low Moss
prison at Crosshill Road, Bishopbriggs, prior to its demolition for the proposed construction of a new prison. The site was
important as the former RAF Bishopbriggs barrage balloon depot, representing the largest remaining collection of original World War II buildings in existence in Scotland outside the property of Defence Estates (Ministry of Defence). The RAF buildings at Bishopriggs were built during the expansion period which began in 1935, a period when many new stations were built and First World War stations upgraded. The building recording provided a written, drawn and detailed photographic record of the structures before development began.
Archive to be deposited with RCAHMS.
Funder: Scottish Prison Service.
Diana Sproat, 2007.
