A.I technology allows us to animate historical photos of Auchentibber, showcasing a glimpse of the community over 100 years ago. A video features men and boys playing quoiting at the previous quoiting ground, effectively recreating a believable scene with the actual faces from the original images.
The Hamilton Advertiser ran a story in September 1893 about the dangerous supply of Water in Auchentibber. The story puts things in context nicely about how we take such things as a pure water supply for granted these days in Scotland. In mid August 1893, two samples of water had been taken by the authorities […]
Though not the best quality, this photo shows the former Auchentibber Gardens, High Blantyre. White Pickets fences around the quoting green over a hundred years ago, wooden rustic trellises and pagodas at the back of the Old Inn. All this now lost to nature and woodland at the back of the Auchentibber War Memorial.
On 9th October 1893, a report appeared in local newspapers which highlighted the unsanitary conditions in Auchentibber, and illness which had broken out in relation to polluted water supplies. It’s incredible to think that just over 130 years ago, people were living in those conditions in High Blantyre. I’ve transcribed the newspaper report here: “Owing […]
This very beautiful scene was taken from a series of postcards and shows the upper Calder, at an area called ‘The Glen’, to the west of Auchentibber. At the time this was taken around the 1910’s, the area just below Calderwood Castle had many walkways, and dominated by the Rotten Calder River snaking through a […]
Nature slowly claiming back the former ornamental, beautiful Italian Gardens at Auchentibber. This photo from 1999 shows the remnants of arched structures built 90 years earlier which once adorned the quoting green gardens. Built by the miners, these gardens were once described as a “wonder” and somewhere for tourists to come to happily knowing they […]
I don’t have a date when the County refuse was created at Auchentibber, but suspect it was just after WW2. However, I do know that in April 1977, it was announced that the rubbish tip was declared full and that the Council were seeking a new location and new tip. This was all before proper […]