On Saturday 17th November 1906, the body of a man was observed in the River Clyde at the weir at Blantyre Village. The police were immediately informed and the body was moved to the River Bank for identification. It became known the man was John Stewart, a 23 year old missing man from Barnhill Farm […]
A photo from the turn of the 20th Century, showing Barnhill, Blantyre. Putting this in context, it looks northwards towards the cottage hospital. To the right out the photo would be the Barnhill Tavern (the Hoolets). The only building still standing is the whitewashed building to the right, jutting out into the road at an oblique […]
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 […]
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 […]
In early July 2018, Susan Lindner Kelly sent me this photo of a strange object she noticed in the grounds of David Livingstone Centre. A stone object with the date of 1818 on it. Sending me over the picture she asked if I knew anything about it. I immediately recognised it from old photos […]
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 […]
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 […]