The most enduring fact about the village of Bonnybridge is that it became known in the 90s as the UFO capitol of, variously, Britain, Europe or the world depending on how much it was being built up. I was young enough when it began that it didn’t seem stranger than anything else that went on and took it for granted though when I got older the place was a butt of a lot of jokes because of it. The first reported sighting occurred in 1992 when businessman James Walker said he no

You get to High Bonnybridge by going south uphill along the Broomhill Road, past the primary school and the chapel I attended when I was young, the wood enclosed field where the villages only murder occurred and underneath the railway bridge. Nothing could be a better marker; the shift is obvious and instant, one has clearly left one sort of place and entered another sort. If you follow the road and turn tight along Church St you’ll find the eponymous church; the door locked