At a December meeting in 1892, the County Council welcomed Mr Craig of Bellsfield, who really needed no introduction.
The High Blantyre man was a member of 16 different committees and involved in the Council matters for the previous 16 years. With the Council recently obtaining a quarry, Mr Craig was proposing that Blantyre’s roads should have better and harder ‘metal’, a term used for the hard quarry crushed, material put down to harden roads of the era.
Blantyre it was heard now had a wonderful footpath from Springwell to High Blantyre (on a road which would become Auchinraith Road). It was a surprise to him, this hadn’t been done a long time ago, as the improvement was greatly welcomed by the people in the district and was proud that he had a great deal in making that happen.
He had tried to get the same for a new footpath from Hunthill to Barnhill, but the landowners and property proprietors were not willing at the time to make their donation towards that cause. He was sure however that the new granite kerbing and channels laid in various places in Blantyre would be there for many years to come.
Attention also turned toward securing a letter box for the district. The postmaster had not yet seen a way to separate incoming letters from Low and High Blantyre and it was high time there was separation in the duties between different post offices in Blantyre. A small box was to be erected in Auchentibber too.
Auchinraith Road is pictured just over 2 decades later showing the paths laid out and of course by that time, the area had attracted many new private homes.