Floors Farm Near Eaglesham

In last week s news local historian bill niven described the events.

Floors farm near eaglesham.

News of the defection spread quick and the german s quickly labeled hess a madman. The motive for this seemingly bizarre event still serves to baffle military and political experts to this day. Hess landed near floors farm in eaglesham and was apprehended by local ploughman davy mclean. Hess piloted a messerschmitt bf 110 on may 10 1941 to scotland were he parachuted and landed near floors farm near eaglesham scotland.

The village shares a community council with the neighbouring community of eaglesham. The red arrow represents the approximate crash of his plane. Find farmers near eaglesham get reviews and contact details. Check w b baird in eaglesham floors farm on cylex and find 0141 644 2705 contact info.

A farmer took hess into custody at the point of a. David mclean a local ploughman ran out of his cottage at the rear of floors farm after hearing an aeroplane crashing and saw a parachutist coming down. Shortly after 11 p m. With his fuel supply running low hess parachuted out over renfrewshire at 11 pm and broke his ankle upon landing at floors farm near eaglesham.

A remarkable event during world war ii was the landing of rudolf hess at eaglesham on 10 may 1941. On the night of may 10th 1941 hitler s deputy rudolf hess bailed out of his aircraft a messerschmitt 110 after a five hour 900 mile flight and parachuted into a field at floors farm near the village of eaglesham on fenwick moor. Nazi commander rudolf hess parachuted into a scottish field 70 years ago. A messerschmitt bf 110 aircraft crashed at floors farm with an airman bailing out and landing at floors farm.

Watterfit is a village in east renfrewshire scotland it is on the b767 road between clarkston and eaglesham which are both 1 mile 1 6 km to the north and south respectively while newton mearns is about 2 miles 3 km to the west and east kilbride about 5 miles 8 km to the southeast.