Highlighted in blue on this 1910 map, is a little window in High Blantyre, just off Main Street within Adams Sawmills. Strange subject perhaps for an article, but this has a nice story attached to it in future years. By the 1960s, the sawmills had a different use. Fellow Blantyre history enthusiast Gordon Cook told […]
A beautiful photo from Blantyre man Robert Stewart that could easily be a Christmas card. Pictured are the Calder Falls at Milheugh on 1st December 2010. That harsh Winter saw temperatures drop to minus fifteen with prolonged periods of snow. The picture is a reminder how beautiful Blantyre can be in Winter, even in weather […]
Well done to Jim Brown for managing to photograph a beautiful Otter back in the Calder River in December 2014. At an undisclosed location to the North, this otter was clearly enjoying a Winter swim, in river water much improved in the last few decades. If the return of these amazing wild animals are a […]
A wonderful previously unseen photo online. Photographed by David Ritchie, this photo dates from around 1915 (dating evidence from contemporary photos, growth of the trees and the nearby buildings). It is the clearest picture yet showing the horse water trough that used to sit inside the Wardrop Moore Arch at the Kirkyard. The Pub landlord […]
Thanks to Louise Wilson for sharing these snowy Greenhall pictures from a few years ago. How incredible these snowy scenes are and yet another reminder of the beauty that isn’t far from our doorsteps.
Thank you to Nick Rice, who brought this story to my attention. Nick is related to the McWilliams of Blantyre and told this story of his ancestor. On the evening of Friday 13th September 1907, a somewhat extraordinary accident occurred at Blantyre’s Glasgow Road when a (tram)car belonging to the Lanarkshire Tramway Company ran into […]
Pictured here in September 2014 are the green fields above Hamilton Drive at Newhouse. The leaves are just starting to change colour on the trees. The hay waiting to be collected on farm fields, that offer spectacular views not just of Blantyre but of all the valley right across to the Campsies in the distance. […]