Barskiven Farm
BARSKIVEN FARM: Temporary aerodrome (Aka PAISLEY)
Operated by: Berkshire Aviation Tours
Location: Just N of the A761, about 1nm SE of Linwood and roughly 1.5nm W of Paisley town centre
Period of operation: 27th August 1927 for at least one week
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
The short article was published in the Sunday Mail (Glasgow) on the 28th August 1927.
The local area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
NOTES: We have Mr Douglas Ross to thank for drawing our attention to this location. He has been researching the history of this area. We do not know which field was actually used, but looking at local contour maps, it was without any doubt one of two north of the farm and north of the A761.
Another very likely clue is the factory seen in the aerial photo above. This became the infamous Rootes car factory from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. Infamous because of seemingly never ending industrial disputes. Car manufacturers do like very flat sites, which is why the Japanese Toyota (Derby), Honda (Swindon) and Nissan (Usworth) factories were all built on the sites of large aerodromes. More or less of WW2 vintage.
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