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Duntocher and Hardgate are two villages situated on the shoulders of the Kilpatrick Hills above Clydebank and have always had a friendly rivalry between each other.
They had cotton mills in the 19th and 20th centuries which employed many emigrants from Ireland up until WW2 when they were destroyed by German bombs.
Most of the villages population were employed by Singers and John Browns, both companies which have now also disappeared.
Duntocher from Goldenhill Park
The Roman Bridge Duntocher next to Antonine Wall..........................................Edinbarnet Estate in the 1800,s
Goldenhill Bar,Hardgate
Hooky Moore's cottage on the left and across the road in Hardgate at the bottom of Cochno Road, Nett Morrison's old P.O. and the Goldenhill Bar taken around 1950 just after the overhead lines for the "Wee Caurs" were taken down.(tramlines, cobblestones still to be seen)
A "Wee Caur" at Duntocher Terminus,conductor and driver having a break before the journey back down Kilbowie Road to Clydebank,an ice cream at Fallone's
or a drink of water out of the well by pressing the button will bring back many memories of a trip to Goldenhill Park
Old Duntocher Post Office
Autumn Leaves shortcut at bottom of Cochno Road Hardgate
Glenhead Tavern Duntocher
The Hardgate Roundabout looking east to Glasgow Road with the Old Hardgate Post Office next to the Cloverbar
Above is a view to the north from Hall'sland showing the West holdings and Cochno Hill before the Wimpeys and Pylons were built taken 1948............ Below is a view of Granny Goldie's cottage (circa 1910),the remains which are now under my back garden. The gable end of my cottage Hall's Land can be seen on the left which was built around 1750 and rebuilt by me in 1972 and still has the original 3ft thick stone walls.
"Amang the braes whare Cochno rins,Owre boulders brown, and ferny linns,t'was aye my wish my rest to win,When a' the sword could do was done;and aye I hoped I micht be laid,Beneath the peacefu' beechen shade,Whare safe the cushie broods and croons,Amang the braes whare Cochno rins".D.W.
Look at the full poem on my COCHNO BRAES webpage
"Amang the braes whare Cochno rins"
This is a view towards Duntocher, the ridge behind Glenhead Park can be seen taken from Hall's Land Cochno Road around 1947 (all the farmland was lost to housing within the next 15 years).
Duntocher and Hardgate War
Memorial
Beautiful autumn shades in the beech trees of Cochno Road
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