Logged Visits:

15th May 2024  09:45  by Robert Phillips

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

31st Dec 2023  20:54  by Madam maxwell

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Someone's garden

9th Aug 2023  20:53  by Kctrig

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

7th Aug 2022  12:58  by Trigger monster

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Possibly missing  Score: 2/10

Showing on 1976 OS map, no 65 Landranger. Uphill from Polmont, north east of railway station. Didn’t look too promising seeing the large earth banks behind properties on Skye Drive. Checking on here, fears were realised. Possibly buried under the earth. Would developers have to get permission to remove or bury a pillar even though they are redundant?

Polmont Looking east along earth bank behind houses
Polmont Cheeky chappie sitting on the earth bank to the west, needed to photograph something

3rd Nov 2020  16:21  by Border Peat

Gridref: NS 93708 78484   FB Number: S3598  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 2/10

27th Jan 2020  13:15  by A1Mushroom

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Sadly not there.

12th Jun 2019  14:50  by asbown

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Had no plans to come here until i read the logs below, just had to do it then.

12th Jun 2019  14:50  by The reluctant trigger

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5th Feb 2017  10:25  by Cootking

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What am i doing on my 60th birthday visiting a housing estate to photograph something that disappeared long ago? Cold and wet too. On a plus note it's another tick!

It's here.(Maybe) Probably under the raised earthen bank

21st Apr 2016  18:09  by Aqueously90

FB Number: S3598  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 0/10

Log #313. Gone, didn't even bother looking too hard for any remains. [ExP-225/MiP-25/Rev-2/BM-20/IS-31/Other-10]

28th Dec 2011  13:00  by Mickandkim

Gridref: NS 93708 78484   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 0/10

Gone

18th Jul 2010  18:05  by descarte1

Gridref: NS 93706 78508   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 0/10

Had a crash around in the undergrowth behind the house and on top of the berm (just shy of being in the back gardens). Nothing to be seen. The GPS would indicate is was in a spot now under a garden but, oddly, I wasn't going to bother ringing the doorbell to ask if I could accurately stand on the spot a concrete pillar used to be....agentmancuso might have it right! No obvious trig debris behind the berm although plenty of brickwork....would have had good views across the firth prior to destruction, development and tree planting though!

16th Aug 2009  17:51  by SlainteJimmy

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 1/10

Behind No.4 Skye Drive? Hard not to agree with Garvald... I trailed along the top of that man-made mound.. plenty of paving slabs, rocks and debris - nothing resembling a pillar but some of those trees look older than 1985. My bet is that its buried along with the lower bark of the bigger trees.

30th Jan 2009  14:10  by Late starter

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Re: agentmancuso's log - things have to be pretty bad to bother with this missing trig...we must be a pretty sad lot!

30th Jan 2009  14:10  by Bergfuehrer

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 0/10

Stirlingshire. I agree with agentmancuso - but he is certainly not alone!

1st May 2008  21:30  by agentmancuso

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Driving around in the dark, in a housing estate in Falkirk, looking for a lump of concrete that you know isn't there. How did things get so bad?

2nd Mar 2007  17:38  by andyc

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 2/10

Nice area of Polmont but no trig anymore.

16th Jul 2005  10:17  by clochandighter

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 0/10

Twenty years on, I have revisited, S3598 was still there for me in 1985, now it's not. Regretably I didn't have my camera with me back then. A new line of bungalows has appeared along the north side of an extended Syke Drive. Trig site seems to be in a back garden about 40% of the way along from the west end of the line to a public footpath through the houses. They seem to have quarried these houses into the summit of the hill which probably provided the earth for the berm behind. I believe locals tried to save this summit. Whether or not the profit hungry property developer handed a well filled brown envelope to Falkirk Council planners will never be proved. Undergrowth on berm too time consuming to start fighting. S3598.R.I.P.

13th Jul 2005  09:11  by rhayader_wanderer

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I'll try and pull up the detail plots of the area to check but I think it is now a garden rather than part of the berm

10th Oct 2004  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

narrow earth bank behind houses, not seen but couldn't be sure it isn't still lying in scrub. On 1998 LR65. Os trig archive: Refixed 1984, Destroyed 10/91.

3rd Jun 2004  13:15  by sky high boys

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 1/10

Gone, gone, gone.

15th Feb 2004  17:45  by fasgadh

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 3/10

On my old map, but now bungalows, Skye Drive or something similar.. The developers piled up a berm to hide/protect the bungaloids from Grangemouth.

4th Feb 2004  12:00  by iainmac

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Revisited with 10 digit grid ref as I was passing.

9th Jan 2003  12:00  by iainmac

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Second visit and a more thorough look. New houses may have rung its demise. Trig not marked on the 1:25000 map (c) 1994.

1st Aug 1985  12:00  by clochandighter

FB Number: S3598  Condition: Good  Score: 1/10

One point because I saw this trig pillar standing as S3598 in 1985. A Polmonter told me in 1989 that locals were campaigning to keep the high point as an open public space, but then property developers & planning departments - you all know what I mean, but I'm not saying anything actionable. Grrr!