This photo published in 1904 by Gilmours has kindly been scanned in at high resolution and shared here. I’ve been able to capture the photo in zoomed in sections to show a little more detail than would normally be seen. This rare scene is Bardykes Road, Barnhill. It’s 1904 and pictured is the Barnhill Tavern […]
I had to double take when this pictured arrived with me. Pictured is Aggie Bains cottage on Bardykes Road, complete with the little lane and the Barnhill Tavern. However, it’s not the 1933 picture that you may have seen before. It was photographed on a misty Boxing day in December 2014, by Robert Stewart. I […]
Six men had narrow escapes from serious injury on Tuesday 8th September 1936 in Bardykes Colliery Blantyre, when they were caught by a race of loaded runaway hutches on the main hutch road. Three escaped by entering a manhole but the others were caught when attempting to enter another manhole. The injured men were John Martin […]
I was recently looking through a trunk full of Blantyre “stuff” I’ve collected over the years and surprised to see that some contemporary (and unremarkable) booklets or articles I’d put away at the time, are now in themselves turning into pieces of Blantyre history and becoming more interesting! For example, this advert for Wilkie’s Farm […]
Looking at Jean Claude Nattes, 1799 sketch of Priory Bridge, I was surprised to see a house sitting by the bridge on the North West Side. I know this not to be the Bardykes Mill, which was located in the river canyon itself, so what was this mysterious, old house in the field beyond the […]
Springtime 1940 was remembered by the Miners of Bardykes Colliery as being one that should have been different. Appalling safety lapses resulted in the deaths of two men just weeks apart and instigated inquiries into the safety of the pit. As war raged on in Europe, many of the men employed in the mines were […]
Introducing “The Hoolets” and their new beer garden! It’s one of the oldest pubs in Blantyre, built in 1745 and it’s currently getting an extensive facelift! At the invite of new owner Mick Flynn, Blantyre Telegraph was invited recently to check out the ongoing renovations of the Bardykes Road pub and their brand new beer […]