This beautiful photograph may be recognisable right away to many people as the waterfalls at Crossbasket.
However, there’s nothing recent about it, having been taken between 1900 – 1905 or so, it’s over 120 years old! This was a time when Crossbasket House was still a private residence of one family, rather than than the hotel it is today. David Ritchie, a local photographer has captured the timeless charm of Crossbasket Falls in High Blantyre which in recent decades appears to have adopted the nickname of ‘Four Angels Falls’.
Nestled at what is now the renamed, grandly renovated Crossbasket Castle, the rushing waters have flowed unchanged for centuries, a constant witness to the history and names changing around them. Now overlooked by a couple of newly built lodge houses.
This photo eventually became a postcard. It’s a little reminder for me and indeed anybody reading this far of Blantyre’s natural beauty which endures through the ages.
💭 Can you imagine the family and domestic servants wandering by the river in those Edwardian times, listening to the sound of the falls?
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