Air 3 Scotland's abandoned shopping village

Coconut Island Drones · 2025-10-11T16:16:42-0400

Scotland's Abandoned shopping village : A drone tour over, around and right into the heart of this long abandoned designer shopping village that closed in 2004 and has been left to the elements ever since. In more recent times it doubled as the streets of Lockerbie in the recent TV programme of the same name.
Hope you enjoy the video.

AMann · 2025-10-11T16:37:49-0400

Interesting, good flying too. What I’m also really interested in are those cone-shaped hills at the 0:55 mark. Can you do a movie of flying over and around those? They look fascinating!

Coconut Island Drones · 2025-10-11T18:12:07-0400

AMann said:
Interesting, good flying too. What I’m also really interested in are those cone-shaped hills at the 0:55 mark. Can you do a movie of flying over and around those? They look fascinating!

Thank you. The cone shaped hills are known as 'the 5 sisters'. They are shale bings. I was going to fly around them today but didn't have enough battery left so I'll get back to them soon.

AMann · 2025-10-11T18:54:05-0400

Coconut Island Drones said:
Thank you. The cone shaped hills are known as 'the 5 sisters'. They are shale bings. I was going to fly around them today but didn't have enough battery left so I'll get back to them soon.

I just looked up “shale bings” and had no idea the 5 Sisters were man-made. They look pretty natural with trees at their base and a lot of grass and other vegetation on them, guess Mother Nature comes back pretty fast as they are over 100 years old.

It will be interesting to see that nursery in your video in the future if nobody tears it down. Can other animals besides birds easily get inside it? Imagine what would happen if a family of foxes moved in - the developers would have issues to deal with if they wanted to remove the buildings.

Coconut Island Drones · 2025-10-11T19:10:05-0400

AMann said:
I just looked up “shale bings” and had no idea the 5 Sisters were man-made. They look pretty natural with trees at their base and a lot of grass and other vegetation on them, guess Mother Nature comes back pretty fast as they are over 100 years old.

It will be interesting to see that nursery in your video in the future if nobody tears it down. Can other animals besides birds easily get inside it? Imagine what would happen if a family of foxes moved in - the developers would have issues to deal with if they wanted to remove the buildings.

There's a lot of windows missing so yes other animals would get in pretty easily. Most of central Scotland was littered with shale bings in the past 100 years due to coal mining. There was a huge one in the village next to me and it was just there my whole life so I never thought much of it. When I was about 14 someone told me it was getting taken away and I remember thinking how on earth do they take a mountain like that away. Work started and within 9 months it was gone.