I’ve been catching up on some more Ancestry requests, looking at each in order they came in. Christine Forrest writes, “I would love to find out where my Great Grandfather came from. Jock Forrest lived opposite the Hoolet’s Nest in a little weaver’s cottage on Bardykes Road in the Barnhill area. He was born in the […]
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1910 Barnhill by Neil Gordon
Continuing a look at some nice Blantyre related paintings. Today is the turn of this colourful scene. I love this little painting, not just of the effort and its content, but because it was painted by the late Neil Gordon, a well known man and my Blantyre history predecessor. Neil is the man who originally […]
1818 Dating Stone
Barnhill Boys & Graffiti 1920’s
I’ve been zooming in on old photos again to see what I’d previously missed. Like these two wee boys walking past a house in Barnhill during the 1920’s, or immediately in front of them, on the top of the wall at the Pech Brae, seeing SO much graffiti, which surprised me. Initials and dates painted […]
Barnhill Carters 1920’s
Zooming in on a photo scanned in good detail, here are a couple of carters at Barnhill in the 1920’s. The Barnhill Tavern is out the picture to the right. The road is Bardykes Road looking north. Some dating evidence. The whitewashed cottage (Aggie Bains) is different from today , still with part of […]
Wellgreen, Blantyre
Miss Aggie Lloyd Bain
Miss Aggie Bain – was born Agnes Lloyd Bain in Hamilton on 5th November 1867 to parents David Bain, an accomplished plasterer and Jane Brownlie, who had married in June 1860 in Hamilton. She was the 4th child, behind older siblings Mary, Andrew and John. In 1871, when she was 3, she was living with […]