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A lovely photo of Dechmont. In particular, this is the firing range and was photographed around 1964. The area was clearly marked to prevent walkers and trespassers from wandering in. A flag system allowed passers by to note if the range was being used, though the loud noises, I’m sure would surely be a giveaway. […]
When I saw this photo yesterday and heard Harrison Ford was filming the next Indiana Jones movie in Scotland, for a moment, I hoped this was taken ‘doon the Cawther’ in Blantyre! I had an image of him standing on Snake Island at Milheugh, hands in the air shouting, “Snakes…why does it always have to […]
Hard to believe, but these photos are now 41 years old. Taken in September 1980, it shows the former chimney at Blantyeferme colliery and brickworks, as contractors rolled in to flatten more of the bings and surrounding fields. It’s quite hard to put the location in context, the chimney now long demolished, so I’ve attached […]
Something remarkable today, a photo perhaps the oldest of any Blantyre photos! This lantern slide was allegedly taken in 1860 by Sir Thomas Annan and shows Blantyre Priory when the ruin was still very much more intact than now. Incredibly this photo 161 years old was taken a full 17 years even before the Blantyre […]
Going back to the end of the 19th Century with this sketch showing a man fishing at Blantyre’s very own Milheugh Bridge! At the bottom of the Pech Brae and Lindsay Hill, this was the former bridge, before the current sandstone one. A nice depiction showing the Rotten Calder in its beautiful surroundings. This illustration […]
This is the inside of a Blantyre house in 1913. A very special room for its the birthplace of David Livingstone at Shuttle Row. Now, what is remarkable though, is that this was NOT the museum dressed up to show life in Victorian times, but was the actual home of a resident there at the […]
Here’s something interesting. An old, long forgotten place in Blantyre near the Village. On John Thomspons 1832 Atlas of Scotland map, is a place named ‘Clayhouse’ on the road which became Station Road. In 1832 this was the main thoroughfare down to Blantyre Works Village. The building is substantial enough to be separately shown on […]