
Broompark and Larkfield are centrally located in Blantyre
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1790
The history of Springfield House – former house
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1800
How Newmains became Broompark – Origins of Broompark
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Broompark Farm, High Blantyre – Detailed history of this farm
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1858
Breaking Ground – for railway
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1862
Starlings – nesting
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1874
Mineral Line to Larkfield – Caledonian Railway application
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1876
Newmains Cottage – Broompark Road
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1892
Croftpark – presentation on Dr Grant’s marriage
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1894
Driven to theft – desperate acts
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Railway Bridge – dilapidated
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Blakey’s Cross – High Blantyre
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1895
The Birch Rod – 6 boys sentenced
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Public House Prosecution – constable enquires
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Larkfield Right of Way – early Watson St
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Signal Cabin 4 – Now Mossbank
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Outbreak of Fever – typhoid
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Larkfield Gangway Accident – colliery
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1896
Serious Gas Poisoning – Pilot Acre & Bowies Land
Larkfield Daring Burglary – robbery
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Dunn’s Laun – 10 one storey homes
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Slop Warning – Larkfield
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1899
Larkfield School – abandoned
1901
Nicol – watch repairs
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1904
Larkfield – Lost Diamond ring
1905
Causeystanes Thatched Building – at Broompark
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Broompark Road – junction comparison
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Broompark Road – comparison
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Watson Street – footway ![]()
Larkfield – Back door to close
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Broompark Avenue – children
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1908
Quoiting Team – at Broompark road grounds
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Broompark house – from Broompark Avenue
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Broompark Avenue – new houses
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Larkfield Murder – Grace MacCallums Pub ![]()
Pole Pawns Pal’s Property – broompark ![]()
Broompark Avenue – child photo
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Broompark Avenue – homes
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1910
The old Springfield House – At Broompark Road
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Lawson’s Bakery – some history
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1913
Destruction of Bee Hives – 1913
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1919
Another Broompark Quoiting Green – opens
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1920
Cole Family – at Larkfield
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1921
Dixon’s Pit 4 – collapse
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1925
Templetons – 7 generations
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1928
Hunthill Road – Playtime
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1929
Mary Danskin – at Larkfield
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Broompark Quoiting Club – history of the club
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1930
Broompark House – Croftpark painting
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1933
Illegal Watson Street Dentist – charged
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1934
Girl Cyclist Killed – at Broompark
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Blantyre Cottage Hospital – photo
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1935
Causeystanes Dairy – Broompark Road
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1945
Growing up in Broompark Road – life
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1950
Mr Duncan – at Little’s Building
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Broompark Road – at Larkfield
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1953
Handball – at Larkfield Gable
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1955
Duncan Bros – at Larkfield
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Larkfield Shops – a description
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Rear of Robertsons Buildings – scene
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Duncan Family – at Larkfield
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Smiths Grocers – Larkfield
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1965
Broompark Road – Number 60 construction
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1967
Watson Place – to Australia on holiday
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Announcing – Scottish Special Housing
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1968
Bill Cochrane – at Watson Place
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1970
The Doonin Pub -photo
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Eddie Collins Bakery – at Larkfield
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1977
St John Ogilvie RC Church – history
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Broompark Road – removal Larkfield Bing
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Eddie Collin’s Shop – Broompark Road
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Colliery Bing and Larkfield Shop – photos
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Broompark Rd – Larkfield Hall site
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Larkfield Bing – Eddie Collins Shop
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Construction of playing field – Larkfield Bing
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Broompark Road – scene
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Larkfield Bing Construction – news
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Larkfield Shops – Delays
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Standing stones – at the shops?
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1978
Planting Trees – at Larkfield Bing
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Larkfield Bing – trees uprooted
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1979
Fire – at St John Ogilvie
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1980
Larkfield – Shops in the 1980s
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High Blantyre Primary – a touch of class
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Larkfield shops – A running jump
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Arcade Concerns at Larkfield – slots
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1993
Papa Franks – sign
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1999
Doon Inn Roof – photo
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Finbarrs – at larkfield
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2009
The Larkfield Bar – remembered
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2015
Queen misses out – on prize bull
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Memoirs of a Blantyre Brickie – by James Graham
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Carrigans – rising from the ground
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2020
The 1818 Dating Stone – at DLC
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2022
The Olive Music Lounge – Broompark Rd
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2023
Minecraft Finbarrs – recreation
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