Islay, Bowmore, Flying Boat Base
Oil Storage Tank(S) (20th Century), Pumping Station (20th Century)
Site Name Islay, Bowmore, Flying Boat Base
Classification Oil Storage Tank(S) (20th Century), Pumping Station (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Stanalane
Canmore ID 204757
Site Number NR35NW 60.01
NGR NR 3105 5955
NGR Description Centred NR 3105 5955
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Killarow And Kilmeny
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR35NW 60.01 centred 3105 5955
This area was the former military oil storage depot which was connected via a pipeline to the pier at Bowmore (NR35NW 43). There was also a fuel pipeline to Port Ellen Airfield (NR35SW 10). The circular base of one of the oil tanks survives at NR 3112 5953 in use as a car park. At NR 3102 5952 is a building thought to contain fragments of the RAF pumping station. Four oil storage tanks were built, all of which are visible on post-war RAF vertical air photographs, (LEU/UK 6, 7080-1, flown 24 April 1948).
Much of the area has subsequently been built over and is now occupied by modern housing.
Information from Defence of Brtain recording forms, N Ruckley 1998
