One from my own family album today. This photo’s a little bit blurry but is my dad, Joe Veverka taken at the top of the Calder in 1976. Our Samoyed dog was still relatively young then, and I was only 5 years old when this was photographed by mum. Dad is training the dog to […]
How about this for a cracking photo! This is the former Bothwell – Blantyre railway viaduct spanning the River Clyde. Taken around 1900, this is a peaceful scene with no trains going over it at that moment. Below the railway is the viaduct walkway, entered through abutments at either side. The Craighead viaduct is no […]
Now here’s another great photo you won’t have seen yet! I’ve zoomed in on this Calder photo. Taken between 110 and 120 years ago, these children are standing at the former Milheugh stone bridge, Blantyre. In the foreground is the Rotten Calder river. There’s not much of this shoreline left these days at the foot […]
Andy Lynch shared these photos from forty years ago and added, “This is a picture that I took from my bedroom at 121 Hillview Drive around 1980. No new houses or the TACT Hall yet. The Priory Bing had been levelled and you can see the last pit building still standing. The next pic is […]
The last two photos in the set showing Blantyreferme and the efforts made in September 1986 to reduce the former Colliery Bing. The farm fields next to the main Blantyreferme Road were restored by a significant reduction in levels, removing much of the bing, that had been there for almost 100 years before. Amongst the […]
Photos next from September 1986 and to the north of Blantyre is Blantyreferme. This photos represent the reduction of the Colliery bings, a significant effort to restore the ground back closer to the existing field levels. The large remnants of the colliery bings removed and taken away, removing most of the signs of the former […]
These four photos are from 1979. Pictured from Whistleberry , they look across to the former Craighead Bing. A fairly bleak scene and one of the last remnants of visible colliery Bings in Blantyre.