[Womble]

Just looking at Google Maps earlier, and found some weird buildings on the banks of the Forth near Throsk:


(click here for link)
 

I just wondered what they were. Are there any locals (or ex locals  ) on here who can enlighten me?

[robert waddell]

is that not bandeath industrial est        whare they made bullets and other things in WW2     IT SHOULD SHOW THE OLD JETTY
yep thats it when i zoomed the map out

[Rosemary]

Yes, it's the old ammunitions site at Bandeath - it's just across the river from our house at Longcarse. Don't know what they are used for now. The dog pound is beside them too.

[Womble]

Oh I see. Thanks Lillian & Rosemary! 

I thought it looked vaguely agricultural, but something wasn't quite right about it.  I guess all the wee buildings were separated like that so that if one went bang, it wouldn't take the whole site with it!?! 

[Sandy]

I thought it was a housing estate for people with ASB's  

[Womble]

You mean ASBOs?     Well frankly if making ammunition isn't classed as anti-social, I don't know what is!! 

[nel]

Hi Womble

I grew up very near there on a farm between Throsk & Cowie.  I can just remember the MOD being there but it closed many years ago.  I do remember my Dad telling me that his best man had got a job at Throsk in munitions store.  On his first day his boss asked what steps he would take in the event of fire, George replied "great bl...... big ones out that gate".   

It is used to graze sheep now and is a good place for birds now, curlews, lapwings etc. 



 

[Daisy]

Hi Womble, how did you get the Google map on ? I've tried before to do the same and no luck

I was brought up in Tillicoultry and never knew that that was there 

[Hardfeather]

My father used to work on ammunition-dumping boats out of Rosyth and Crombie. They took cargo of ammo from Bandeath and dumped it in deep water off the May Isle. He got me on a sailing from Crombie to Bandeath once. The highlight of those trips was to see if you could cause the local bus to be delayed by the opening of the Kincardine bridge to allow the boat through. The skipper would have all eyes peeled for sight of the bus and would try to time his approach accordingly.

There was an old woman used to come out and wave a tea towel when the boat sounded her horn to ask for the bridge to be swung open. On the trip I was on, the skipper was drunk and caused the boat to go too far astern and rammed the pier at Crombie, before we even got started.

[doganjo]

how did you get the Google map on ?

Underneath the picture in blue writing it says 'click here for link'  That brings up the google website and map.

[Daisy]

Thanks Doganjo I did see that  , but what really I wanted to know was how to get the actual map onto a a forum, I can get a link to a Google map but not the map or a pic of the area

[nel]

My father used to work on ammunition-dumping boats out of Rosyth and Crombie. They took cargo of ammo from Bandeath and dumped it in deep water off the May Isle. He got me on a sailing from Crombie to Bandeath once. The highlight of those trips was to see if you could cause the local bus to be delayed by the opening of the Kincardine bridge to allow the boat through. The skipper would have all eyes peeled for sight of the bus and would try to time his approach accordingly.

There was an old woman used to come out and wave a tea towel when the boat sounded her horn to ask for the bridge to be swung open. On the trip I was on, the skipper was drunk and caused the boat to go too far astern and rammed the pier at Crombie, before we even got started.

Where I stayed at Throsk you could hear the sound of the horn signalling that the bridge was about to open.  I had never seen the bridge open but on last time it was opened the wife of my Dad's boss took me along in their car to see it.  Let's not even try to remember how long ago that was.

Nel

[Rosemary]

The "swing" part stopped swinging in 1988. I lived in Alloa all my life and never saw it open.

[nel]

The "swing" part stopped swinging in 1988. I lived in Alloa all my life and never saw it open.

If I remember correctly it was finally incapacitated in the 80's but it was last used in the early 60's, I was just a wee lassie.