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Can't believe I missed this mate, fabulous I've lived in the area for over 55 years and have always had a sense of the history as I played and now walk about the area. Obviously everything has changed but the street structure in much of the area, known as Battlefield, still follows the original village layout. The battle is very well documented but as is often the case there are more than a few versions of the details of the day.One is that Mary watched the defeat of her army from a hill a couple of miles to the south east of the battlefield. This is now known as Court Knowe and would certainly have provided a good vantage point. The problem is that Cathcart Castle was less than 100 yards away and was held by a supporter of the Regent. However if she did watch from the higher ground around here her troops might well have fled in that general direction, this could mean that the bridge in the scene could possibly have been Cathcart's Snuff Mill Bridge. This was built in the 1700's but a date stone shows a date in the mid 1600's although current opinion believes that this refers to a rebuild or repair to a much older structure.One of the local legends is that the pond in Queens Park was formed on top of a burial pit for the dead from the battle. At midnight on the 13th of May each year ghosts are said to rise up from the surface of the pond. I've had my own encounters with spirits here ............ there are several pubs in the immediate vicinity.
Can't believe I missed this mate, fabulous
I've lived in the area for over 55 years and have always had a sense of the history as I played and now walk about the area. Obviously everything has changed but the street structure in much of the area, known as Battlefield, still follows the original village layout. The battle is very well documented but as is often the case there are more than a few versions of the details of the day.
One is that Mary watched the defeat of her army from a hill a couple of miles to the south east of the battlefield. This is now known as Court Knowe and would certainly have provided a good vantage point. The problem is that Cathcart Castle was less than 100 yards away and was held by a supporter of the Regent. However if she did watch from the higher ground around here her troops might well have fled in that general direction, this could mean that the bridge in the scene could possibly have been Cathcart's Snuff Mill Bridge. This was built in the 1700's but a date stone shows a date in the mid 1600's although current opinion believes that this refers to a rebuild or repair to a much older structure.
One of the local legends is that the pond in Queens Park was formed on top of a burial pit for the dead from the battle. At midnight on the 13th of May each year ghosts are said to rise up from the surface of the pond. I've had my own encounters with spirits here ............ there are several pubs in the immediate vicinity.
