The Whins or Blantyreferme Anti Aircraft (AA) Battery was situated to the North of the railway line and West of Blantyre Farm Road. It was built in response to the threat of Nazi air raids during World War Two. The site consisted of over 20 accommodation and administration wooden huts, an engineering hut, initially […]
Conditions were difficult in the Blantyreferme camp in the immediate years of people flitting from Dechmont Camp over to Blantyreferme Whins camp in October 1948. From the Scotsman Tuesday 18th January 1949 page 3 CAMP DEPUTATION.— A deputation consisting of two men and two women from the Whins Camp at Blantyreferme, Lanarkshire, have been […]
Blantyre Ferme Camp or Whins Camp was a former Second World War army barracks camp at Blantyreferme. The land was acquired from the Calderglen estate. It was decommissioned and abandoned following the end of the war in 1945, but shortly after in 1948 became the home of many families who were evicted from a more […]