Neilston, Double Hedges Road, Civilian Transit Camp
Military Camp (20th Century)
Site Name Neilston, Double Hedges Road, Civilian Transit Camp
Classification Military Camp (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kingston Road; Kingston Avenue
Canmore ID 282155
Site Number NS45NE 93
NGR NS 4765 5660
NGR Description Centred NS 4765 5660
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/282155
- Council East Renfrewshire
- Parish Neilston (Renfrew)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Renfrew
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS45NE 93 centred 4765 5660
For second civilian transit camp, see NS36NE 145.
A hutted camp has been identified from vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 84, 3033-3034, flown 10 May 1946), about 250m SW of Neilston railway station (NS45NE 80) and on two sides of Double Hedges Road and N of Kingston Road.
At least 48 pitched roof huts have been identified laid out in 'streets' around a centrally placed 'T' shaped building, possibly used as a mess and entertainment hall.
The camp was built to house civilian evacuees from Gibralter, displaced at the start of the Second World War. The camp was probably occupied from 1944 after the evacuees had been moved from London following the flying bomb raids on the city. This camp and another at Bridge of Weir (NS36NE 145) housed up to 6,000 people.
The site is now occupied by postwar housing in Kingston Avenue.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), July 2006; J Gingell via letter to RCAHMS, 7 July 2006.
