Old Kilpatrick, Station Road, Recreation Ground
Barrage Balloon Site (Second World War)
Site Name Old Kilpatrick, Station Road, Recreation Ground
Classification Barrage Balloon Site (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Clyde Aa Defences
Canmore ID 203616
Site Number NS47SE 198
NGR NS 4696 7284
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/203616
- Council West Dunbartonshire
- Parish Old Kilpatrick (Clydebank)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydebank
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS47SE 198 4696 7284
A barrage balloon mooring site has been identified from World War II RAF vertical air photographs (NLA 44, 5.43-5.44, flown 27 August 1942) in a small recreation ground immediately E of Old Kilpatrick railway station (NS47SE 96).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2001
Field Visit (29 March 2017)
Nothing is now visible in an area occupied by a playing field of a World War Two Barrage Balloon anchoring site, which is shown on an RAF photograph (NLA 44, 5.43-5.44) taken on 27 August 1942. 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) 29 March 2017.
