2010 Old Blantyre Airfield location, shared by J Brown
During an evening conversation with Jim Cochrane in December 2014, Jim told me that Blantyre used to have an airfield! Well, actually it was a decoy airfield during WW2. Up on the high fields to the South of the town, is a flat area, barren and bare called Blantyre Muir. Jim told me, “Part of the stories my Gran used to tell me was Blantyre Airfield. There is a book about wartime airfields and it lists wartime decoy airfields and Blantyre was was listed.”
During the Second World War, this airfield was a dummy, a decoy if you like. It was only home to wooden or canvas aircraft and building’s. It was intended as a dummy airfield to draw the enemy aircraft away from Glasgow and drop there bombs here instead, in remote locations, with minimal damage. Pictured here in 2010 by Jim Brown is Blantyre Muir. You can see how high, flat and remote the area is, which is now the site of a modern wind farm. It is the perfect location for a decoy airfield. (and no the crater in the foreground is not a bomb crater!)