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Officials , volunteers and local residents officially opened the brand new Blantyre Community Garden last night adjacent to the Rowan Hall. The serene and transformed outdoor space at the Blantyre Soccer Academy, officially called “Blantyre Community Garden”, was the product of many months of hard work which aimed to create a functional community garden space, […]
A busy week this week, especially in the Village with the opening of the brand new Community Playpark at David Livingstone Birthplace, just off Station Road. As our photos show, contractors have been working hard on the new £115k playpark, which officially will open to the public this Thursday, 1st July 2021. It was a […]
I love this photo for a whole load of reasons, the first one being it’s a great photo of my father, Joe Veverka. This is August 1969 and he’s here in Scotland on holiday for the first time. Hardly able to speak much English, he was bowled over by the warmth of the country, it’s […]
A last look for now at Greenhall House in High Blantyre. These are the former gardens, which once sat at the side of the grand house. The road in the background is now the Carpark at Greenhall, so this area here would be where the low, black railings and seats currently now, the ground sloping […]
Continuing our look at Greenhall Estate this week. This photo from the 1940’s was shared by the Paul family a few years back. This nice garden was attached to the former grand Greenhall House and putting this in context today, it would be where the swings and playpark was in Greenhall during the 1970s, 80s […]
Continuing a fascinating previously unseen look at photos of Greenhall from 100 years ago. This photo dates from 1921 and shows the western entrance (on the Crossbow side) snaking down through the trees to the former Greenhall House, now where the Carpark is. The large sloping field is on the right hand side (where people […]
Continuing our look at Greenhall Estate and a few more photos this week, which I hope you won’t have seen before. Taken from a 1921 sales brochure in my ownership, these photos have been beautifully colourised to enhance and show what the estate once looked like. This lovely woodland scene may be slightly familiar, though […]