
History of Hunthill, High Blantyre
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1557
Blantyre Tower – and fortalice
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1762
Old Mains Place – Medieval Roots of this old house
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1833
Silver Teapot – from Old Place
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1849
Old Place to Let – Advert letting out the old house
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1859
Archer’s Croft, High Blantyre – Lands on corner of Hunthill Rd
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1860
Apprentice Mason – made example of
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1875
High Blantyre School – detailed history
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1892
High Blantyre School – polling station
Abandoned Station – plans
1896
Hunthill Railway line – explosives
1899
Boy’s Game backfires – sentenced
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1900
Fire at Hunthill Road – Mrs Fultons house
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1901
Fire at Hunthill Road – Mr Malcoms house
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1904
Hunthill – postcard scene
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Hunthill Road – High Blantyre
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1905
Horse at Hunthill – photo
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1908
Hunthill Signal Box – burns down
1915
Millardale – postmistress WW1
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1922
Illegal Football – at Hunthill
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1923
The Penalty King – Johnny Aitkenhead of Hunthill Road
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1925
Hunthill Road Homes – mid to late 1920s
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Millardale – Hunthill Road
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Boys – sitting on Hunthill Rd
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1928
Runaway Train – near Broompark Farm
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1929
Bus collides – with cart
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1935
Hunthill Road – railway bridge and houses
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1939
Construction of the steel homes – Watson Street
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1950
Young & Son Coal Delivery – at Calderview
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Hunthill Road – entrance to Old Place
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1955
Bus at Hunthill Road – at Stonefield Crescent
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1962
Hunthill Road – Railway bridge removal
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Hunthill Road – more removal of the railway bridge
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Hunthill Road – from the railway embankment
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1965
Robert Thomsons Shop – Hunthill Road
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Willie Thomson – at the shop
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1968
Fulston’s Ceiling Collapse – ceiling caves in
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1970
Hunthill Road – School
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1978
Pigeons relocated – Hunthill Lane
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1979
Greenway – Lane Repairs
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1980
Hunthill Road – looking north
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