Hitler and Eva Braun Escaped Berlin and died in South America in 1962

A new book claims Adolf Hitler faked his death and escaped from Berlin and travelled to Argentina with Eva Braun in 1945.

Grey Wolf - The Escape of Adolf, by British authors Gerrard Williams and Simon Dunstan says Hitler and Braun had two daughters before Hitler died in 1962 at the age of 73.

"They refute the widely accepted view that the Fuhrer shot himself in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945, and Braun committed suicide by taking cyanide," Britain's The Daily Mail reported.
"Instead, they claim, there is 'overwhelming evidence' to suggest that the couple escaped at the end of the Second World War for a new life in a Nazi-controlled enclave in Fascist Argentina."
"The book also claims American intelligence officials were complicit in the escape, in return for access to war technology developed by the Nazis.

"It also says that skull fragments thought to be those of Hitler currently held by the Russians are actually that of a young woman under the age of 40. Hitler was 56 when he died."

A film will be released early next year.

For further information go to http://www.greywolfmedia.com/

Grahamston - Glasgows Lost Village

Grahamston - Glasgows Lost Village.

Until the1870's there existed a village called Grahamston, just outside the (then) City Boundary, this was largely demolished yn the 1870's to allow the building of Glasgow Central Station, and now only two remnants of the village remain above gound level, these are the Grant Arms (near the Heilanman's Umbrella), and the the former Duncans building that is now the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Hotel.

The remainder of Grahamston now lies beneath Central Station and very few photographs exist.

Grahamston/s main street still exists (in part) directly beneath Platform 3 of Central Station.

For further information see  http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/page192.html

Sir Bernard Lovell (obituary)

                     Sir Bernard Lovell   (31 August 1913 – 6 August 2012)

Very sad to hear of the death of Sir Bernard Lovell, former Director of Jodrell Bank Obsevatory in Cheshire.

It is a little known fact that Lovell, and John Logie Baird together with Professor RV Jones ,were the co-inventors of Radar on which they worked at the Telecommunications Research Establishment during WW2.

The credit for radars invention was given (wrongly) to Watson Watt (the Senior Scientific Officer) the leader of the team, although Baird held most of the patents for Radar.
Lovell attempted to continue his studies of cosmic rays with an ex-military radar detector unit, but suffered much background interference from the Electric trams on Manchester's Oxford Road.

He moved his equipment to a more remote location, one which was free from such electrical interference, and where he established the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire.
Lovell was knighted in 1961 for his important contributions to the development of Radio Astronomy, having been granted an OBE in 1946 for his work on Radar



Kilmartin Glen

One of the most interesting and enigmatic Historic Sites in Scotland is Kilmartin Glen. Predating the Pyramids of Egypt, there are over 350 Ancient Monuments  including burial cairns, rock carvings, and standing stones within 6 miles of Kilmartin Village, where you will find Kilmartin House Museum, located in an old manse in the village. Some of the monuments can be seen without much dificulty, and without too much walking, as one mile south of the village is the Kilmartin Glen Visitors Car Park, and adjacent to it are the Nether Largie Stones,a group of standing stones,  however it is well worth venturing further to appreciate the scale of the Settlements at Kilmartin Glen.

I have taken several Tour Groups to Kilmartin Glen over the past few years.

Kilmartin Glen is situated on the Oban to Lochgilphead Road (A816) about 45 minutes south of Oban.

Further information can be found at  http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kilmartin/kilmartinglen/

Meikle Reive Iron Age Fort.

                                         Meikle Reive Iron Age Fort 

Within 5 miles of our house are a number of Historical Sites including Barr Hill Roman Fort, mentioned in one of my previous blogs. Another interesting site is Meikle Reive Iron Age Fort near Lennoxtown.

The Fort is situated on the south facing slopes of the Campsies approximayely 1lm to the North East of Bencloich Mains Farm. The fort comprises a system of circular embankments, outside the wall there is a terrace approximayely 14 ft wide. There is also a circular depression about 30 ft in diameter, which is often filled with water.

Further information can be found at  http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/45194/details/meikle+reive/
and  http://www.welcometolennoxtown.co.uk/campsies.htm#The Meikle Reive

Was Gagarin the First Man in Space?

                                        Vladimir Sergeyevich Ilyushin 

It has long been believed that Yuri Gagarin was not the first man to go into space and return to Earfh, but many believe it was Vladimir Sergeyevich Ilyushin the son of the head of the Ilyushin design bureau.

Also Aleksei Ledovsky is aledged to have been the first man in Space but perished during the flight.

Vladimir Ilyushin, son of Soviet airplane designer Sergey Ilyushin, was a Soviet pilot and is purported to have been a cosmonaut, alleged by some to have actually been the first man in space on April 7, 1961—an honor generally attributed to Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961.

The theories surrounding this alleged orbital flight are that a failure aboard the spacecraft caused controllers to bring the descending capsule down several orbits earlier than intended, resulting in its landing in the People's Republic of China. The pilot was then held by Chinese authorities for a year before being returned to the Soviet Union. The international embarrassment that would have resulted from such an incident is cited as the Soviets' reason for not publicizing this flight—they reportedly focused their publicizing efforts on the subsequent successful flight of Yuri Gagarin instead. This event was the subject of a recent TV Documentary.

Vladimir Ilyushin died in 2010.

For further information see  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts

Scotland's Drowned Village

A few years ago I was asked by a group of Americans staying at a Glasgow Hotel to see if I could take them on a tour of Bothwellhaugh, where their family came from, I was intrigued and did some research, and found that Bothwellhaugh no longer existed, and only the Cemetary still exists.

The village was built between 1880 and 1900 to house workers at the Hamilton Palace Colliery. The mine was decommisioned in the late 1950's and th village demolished, and is now buried beneath a lake in Strathclyde Country Park. I have merories of seeing the village from a car travelling on the carlisle Road in the 1960's, the vilage then looked very dilapidated.

Here is a link  to a video TheLost Village of Bothwellhaugh -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3CWTi63EsM

More information about Bothwellhaugh can be found at  http://www.iwitness.btinternet.co.uk/bothwellhaugh/contents.htm