On an overgrown mound 15 yards south west from the end of Golf Road between the 17th Green and the 18th tee on the golf course.
DEMOLISHED No trace of anything remains
Opened in 1959 and closed in 1991.
On an overgrown mound 15 yards south west from the end of Golf Road between the 17th Green and the 18th tee on the golf course.
DEMOLISHED No trace of anything remains
Opened in 1959 and closed in 1991.
I recall (having been born in 1932) a fascinating mediaeval style stockade perched on a mound close to our house Fingask at the end of Golf Road in Ballater in the years 1940-1942 with the Observers in their berets regularly to be seen standing on top scanning the sky with binoculars. There were posters inside it with silhouettes and pictures of different sorts of aircraft, faithfully copied and learned by my own passionately interested 12 year old brother.
The Observers were in constant telephone touch with Aberdeen HQ and it was presumably when they had occasional alerts from there that they passed on warnings of enemy aircraft coming Ballater way. The alarm was then sounded by a man riding his bicycle through the village ringing a handbell. We school children loved this infrequent event as we were then turned out of our classrooms to make our various independent ways home, near and far.
One wonders what would have been the impact of a hostile Messerschmidt machine-gunner on this arrangement
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