Two wreck sites in the Campsie Fells
Fairey Firefly remains on Meikle Bin
Last Sunday I went for a walk in the Campsie Fells, starting just north of Queenzieburn and walking directly up the escarpment of the Kilsyth Hiils, going via the Birkenburn Reservoir towards the 570m summit of Meikle Bin. It was a gloomy day and the moorland of the Campsie Fells is a pretty desolate and featureless place, even though there are views towards the centre of Glasgow from the high ground.
My route took me past the site of two air wrecks; a civilian Percival Prentice that crashed on the Kilsyth Hills escarpment in 1961 (see my photos of this wreck site on my website here), and a Royal Navy Fairey Firefly that crashed on the summit of Meikle Bin in 1950 (see my photos of this wreck site on my website site here). There are only a few pieces of each aircraft left at each site but they are unusual in being so close to urban areas.