Sticking with Boathouse today. A photo from around 1900 or so. This is Arch Brown, the orchardist who lived at Boathouse, near Blantyreferme. Here in this colourised photo, he’s working with the barrels and fruit baskets which stored the picked fruit from the nearby orchards on the edge of the River Clyde. Local people may […]
With thanks to Jenny Day for providing this photo. The berry pickers at Boathouse, Blantyre at the edge of the River Clyde…. including some of Jenny Day’s family. Back row 3rd in, Jessie, Arch Brown with arms folded, unknown male, Robina, front row, Katie, seated, Christina, Jenny’s Grandmother Jessie and Jeannie. This would make the […]
Archie Brown was a market gardener and florist at Boathouse (Boat Jocks) from 1874 until 1912. Thanks to his great, granddaughter, Jenny Day, we’ve been looking at his remarkable diary from 1874 and 1875. In this last extract from April 1875, after which Archie or Arch got married to Christina Braid on June 11th 1875 at […]
We’ve been looking at Arch Brown (b1848-d1912) this week, the market gardener of Boathouse (who lived at Boat Jocks) near the River Clyde. Arch was born in 1848 and married Christina Braid in 1875. Christina’s family lived in the northern cottage at Boatland, and after their marriage, Arch and Christina moved into the southern cottage, […]
Narrative shared by Jenny Day, “Archibald, or as he was more usually known, Arch was the second son and the third of the nine children of Thomas Brown and Catherine McLean. Thomas was the gardener at Orchard House, near Braidwood. Arch was named after his mother’s father, using the Scottish naming system. Arch is […]