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Wartime Records indicate that a World War II Starfish decoy site was located north of Blantyre Muir, east of East Kilbride in the Southern part of Blantyre. It was part of the Clyde AA Defences and was also known as Lodgehill, or Parknewk. Starfish was the codename given to a system of Special Fire or […]
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 […]