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Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:05 pmby Beavis64
I was cycling in the woods next to Lyoncross Rd and Dormanside Rd in Pollok and came across a massive concrete structure which looks like a concrete multi-storey car park...
Anyone know the history of this structure or know why it is in the middle of the woods?
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:18 pmby purplepantman
Any pics mate?
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:44 pmby yoker brian
only thing i can see would be
this
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:59 pmby Ronnie
water tower
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:07 amby yoker brian
Thatks what I suspected Ronnie.
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:55 amby purplepantman
C'mon guys! We can't just leave it at "a water tower".
It's a Cold War communications building with secret underground bunker, missile silo and a railway tunnel leading to Dial House.
It's also built on top of a medieval graveyard and is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of Wee Willie Winkie!
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:57 amby penguinmonkey
are you sure it's not Cathcart Road??
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:42 amby scaryman2u
It`s a redundant water tower, last time I was there it was open. pics here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53271524@N ... 828085072/HG also covered it in the Towers,Caves and Castle walk
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=5319
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:14 pmby Beavis64
Interesting to find out what it actually is, thanks guys.
Very eerie place at 7 in the morning....
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Mon Jun 15, 2009 7:06 pmby Fossil
Beavis64 wrote:Interesting to find out what it actually is, thanks guys.
Very eerie place at 7 in the morning....
were you feltching?
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:18 pmby Josef
I've got an excellent live version of a tune of that name by A Certain Ratio.
Took me twenty years before I found out what the word meant, mind. And then I rather wished I hadn't.
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:30 pmby HollowHorn
Is it to with the making of arrows?
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:31 pmby Josef
Well, don't know about Robin Hood, but there are Merry Men involved at the least.
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:56 pmby floweredpig
Josef wrote:I've got an excellent live version of a tune of that name by A Certain Ratio.
Took me twenty years before I found out what the word meant, mind. And then I rather wished I hadn't.
Vini is a bloody genius
Re: Concrete Structure in Pollok
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Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:59 pmby Josef
Same label, I'll grant you.
I used to have that sandpaper album (actually, not quite sure why I still don't, but anyway...) - it played havoc with the surrounding records.