I’ve been recently asked a few times about the large house that used to stand behind Bardykes Farm, across the river, behind modern Callaghan Wynd, most recently by Blantyre project reader Gillian Cunningham. I’ve never posted about this house previously for although it was accessed from Glasgow Road, it was officially in the Parish of […]
Pictured here by Jim Brown in 2008, is the Lindsay Brae or Lindsay Hill as known locally, leading up from Milheugh Bridge up towards Malcolmwood Farm. I’ve been trying to find out why it was called Lindsay Brae. What person was it named after? When? The history has been lost i believe, so i’d like […]
Mr John P Jackson was the representative of a long line of Jacksons who have held lands and position in Blantyre for the 400 hundred years previous to this articles source. His ancestor also John Jackson first entered into position at Bardykes in 1502, making the land at Bardykes one of the oldest occupied premises […]
This section of the 1747 Blantyre map provides a wonderful insight into how sparsely populated Blantyre was at that time. Remember, around this time, the population of Blantyre was merely around 500 people. This was 40 years before the arrival of the mills and at the time of this map, was a very sleepy, rural […]
Greencroft is described in 1859 as being a superior dwelling on the banks of the Rotton Calder having outhouses, garden and a little ornamental garden. The house is no longer there today but used to sit on Bardykes Road, just North of the Cottage Hospital. It should not be confused with nearby Greencroft Cottage. The […]
Whilst researching the Jackson historical link with my own High Blantyre home, I uncovered various documents that may be of interest to anybody with the surname ‘Jackson’ with links to Blantyre. The ‘Jacksons’ were such an important and prominent family living in the area from the mid 1500’s, their ancestral local home being at Bardykes […]
The Jacksons were a prominent family in Blantyre, owning several farms from as far back as the 1500’s. They were amongst some of the original heritors of Blantyre, responsible for maintaining the Parish on behalf of Lord Blantyre. During the 1700’s their land and property had spread from Bardykes to the nearby hamlet at Barnhill. […]