Martin,
So am I actually. Might be because so much of Scotland is still quite rural.
As well as the Defence of Britain project, the database run by the Royal Commission on Ancient & Historical Monuments in Scotland ( an organisation actually set up during the war!),called CANMORE , tends to have a lot of sites that never made to the DoB. The man who runs it spends a lot of time looking at old recce pics, and then adds anything he finds to the database as raw data. People like myself then take it on ourselves to go visit the site and give him an updated report on its current state. I've managed to expand my own files purely by finding things on CANMORE and then going exploring. You can get it on
web page. You'll need to register, but there's no fee and no time limit.I recommend the CANMAP facility for pure ease of use.
Speaking of unknown sites, my mate discovered an unknown (to us anyway) wartime munitions factory in darkest D&G. Need to go look at some point.
I used to holiday in Dorset when I was a kid, and you could hardly move for pillboxes, camps and airfields. Wonder how many still survive?
My wife thinks I'm a basket case, btw....getting excited over bits of old concrete
Regards,
Gordon
[ 05. October 2004, 07:41 AM: Message edited by: The_Historian ]