Blantyre Project had the pleasure this week of conducting a tour of Crossbasket Castle for the teaching staff and 20 students of South Lanarkshire College. The students were there to learn about sustainable tourism and to see up close a case study of a listed building at risk that was recently renovated. They had to […]
I DO LOVE a photo with no date! Being sent undated photos is like a little challenge to me, to try to close down the decade the photo was taken, or even possibly find out the year. I’d seen this photo of Douglas Street before in the late Neil Gordon’s book back in 2004. […]
Calderside Row was a former single storey row of stone built, terraced homes, at Calderside, High Blantyre. Background In July 1850, Mr. William Young, farmer and owner of Calderside Farm put his farm and all 177 acres of farmland up for sale. Within the advert of 19th July 1850 in the Glasgow Herald, it was […]
My history colleague and friend Gordon Cook, kindly provides today’s article which is on the humble beginnings of the Livingstone Memorial Church. Accompanying the words is a lovely colourised postcard from around 1904, showing the church in all its glory and of course the much narrower Glasgow Road. Gordon writes, “With the rapid increase […]
A modern aerial photo of Calderside Farm, High Blantyre. Also in the photograph is the farm’s converted barn, now a lovely house named , “Calderside House”. The property owner, Mr James Brown shared this photo recently adding, ” I lived at 27 Ellisland St in the prefabs then moved to a new house at Jedburgh St when […]
Local man, Jim Donnelly was walking through the derelict grounds of St Joseph’s Primary School in June 2018, when he spotted this brick amongst the rubble. Imprinted on it was “Blantyre Ferme”, fairly good evidence that the school was built using bricks from the relatively nearby former brickworks. I wonder just how many public buildings […]
Almost Ready The largest building EVER to be built in our town, is almost constructed and will open its doors in September 2018. Indeed some students have already taken up courses and started on 3rd September. We’re talking of course about the ‘University of the West of Scotland‘ (UWS) new state of the art buildings […]