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Castleton Avenue, GLASGOW, G77 5NF

The cars are queuing at temporary traffic lights on Waterfoot Road. Work is currently underway to widen the pavement here and also cut back the hedges.

Original three-storey farmhouse just off Waterfoot Road.

The path links the street with Waterfoot Road behind the camera.

Farm buildings, seen from Mearns Cemetery.

LIEUTENANT J.R. HAIG HADDOW D.S.C., R.N. H.M.S. "MERCURY" 28TH MARCH 1946, AGE 26 WHO WOULD TRUE VALOUR SEE LET HIM COME HITHER Lieutenant John Renwick Haig Haddow was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1942, while serving in submarine H.M.S. Unbroken in the Mediterranean. He continued to serve in other submarines for the rest of the war. In 1946, he was at HMS Mercury, the signal school near Petersfield. Sadly he died during a flying exercise when the plane crashed. (Information from Mearns History Group https://mearnshistory.org.uk/index.php/history/people/john-wilson/35-ww2/229-john-renwick-haig-haddow-dsc.) One of 13 Commonwealth War Graves in Mearns Cemetery.

The depression on the right of the small banking & left of the trees is the route of the old Broom Road East before the new Broom Road East (foreground) was built in 1983. A light pattern can be seen from the aerial image of this position, leading through the field it meets up with a tarmac section of the old road that swings north before meeting up with the new road.

Background houses on Whitehill Grove and Old Humbie Road.

915098 BOMBARDIER H. G. KING ROYAL ARTILLERY 19TH JULY 1941 AGE 20 IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON AND BROTHER "UNTIL THE DAY BREAK" Harry Glencaird King was a bombardier in the 43rd Battery, 61st (11th Battalion, The City of London Regiment) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment. He was stationed at Swindon in Wiltshire, which was subjected to heavy German bombing, due to the location of the large railway works there. He died on 19 July 1941 while defending the area. One of 13 Commonwealth War Graves in Mearns Cemetery.

7575322 S. SJT H. BLANEY ROYAL ARTILLERY 12TH NOVEMBER 1940 AGE 43 Henry Blaney was a Staff Serjeant in the 99th Battery, 18th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery. One of 13 Commonwealth War Graves in Mearns Cemetery.

CAPTAIN I. W. BARCLAY. MB., ChB. ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS 4TH JULY 1944 AGE 34 IN MEMORY OF IAN THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF NANNIE HAY, 1910-1999 OF GLASGOW Captain Ian William Barclay, husband of Agnes (Nannie) Hay. One of 13 Commonwealth War Graves in Mearns Cemetery.