On Wednesday 26th July 1820 a fearsome accident took place in a field at Blantyre Park, Sydes Brae. Mr Robert Millar, the farmer, entered the field where his cattle were grazing and was suddenly charged at by his own bull. After tossing him some considerable height, the bull pointed its horns downwards and gored Mr […]
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JBH Struthers, Innkeeper
JBH Struthers was a very clever man. Hi family owned several pubs throughout Blantyre (at Stonefield and High Blantyre in the 1880’s, but it was he who acquired the Auchentibber Inn in 1899 and he managed to persuade the local miners that a flat field on the banks of Sydes Brae, Auchentibber was the ideal spot […]
The Auchentibber Tramway
There’s confirmed evidence that iron ore was mined in Auchentibber from the late 1700’s, but it was the mining of limestone that left a permanent indent on the hamlet of Auchentibber, on the south side of Blantyre. From as early as the 1830’s limestone was mined from large holes in the ground, which eventually formed […]
Never out the town
During the 1700s in Blantyre, for the best part, the “old timers” of the town were content with their lot and not so adventurous as to venture far off. There is a wonderful anecdote in the Annals of Blantyre 1883 book. It’s reprinted here as follows: “The longevity of the old inhabitants of Blantyre was […]