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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 […]
Incredibly, this pin sharp photo is a hundred years old this year! Taken in 1921, this previously unseen photo , owned now by myself is Greenhall Tennis Courts. This may be a little difficult to put in context, but I’ll try. The path IS still there today, the river Calder out the picture to the […]
It’s been some 91 years since there were tramlines on Glasgow Road. This picture illustrating just how much of the carriageway was once cobbled in Blantyre. This however was a tram stop, outside St Joseph’s Church, the scene at the back still today, very much familiar. To the far right you can just make out […]
Nothing like a spot of fishing at the Calder! A photo capturing a simple past-time. Two men stand in their flat caps, at the former Milheugh Bridge (the one before the present bridge). They’ve cast their fishing rods into the Calder, patiently awaiting a bite and posing for the camera. Up above 2 onlookers at […]
Let’s go back 22 years now to 1999. This is the Calder, but a view you won’t be able to get at the moment. It’s taken over the side of the former small Bridge which once sat near the falls at Milheugh. Can you remember going over this bridge on the way to Greenhall?