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 […]
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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 […]
Wellgreen, Blantyre
Wellgreen was a former triangular area of land at Barnhill. It is shown on the 1859 map with a well supplying the hamlet of Barnhill. The name literally means the green […]
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 […]
1915 Aggie Bain at Barnhill
Back to Barnhill today, to Broompark Road. This remarkably clear photo from 1915 shows a thatched building that is no longer there today. The trees at the back is […]
1915 Broompark Rd, Barnhill
This rural scene is at Broompark Road, just off Barnhill. The pictures taken in World War One years in 1915 show the old stepped gables and thatched roof of […]
Wallace Blacksmith at Barnhill
In early December 2016, John Sproat contacted me saying, “I ‘googled’ Barnhill, as I have been researching my ancestors, and found your website. My several-times great grandfather through my […]
1910 Barnhill, Bardykes Road
This photo is of Barnhill at Bardykes Road, looking northwards. To the right is the familiar sight of the Hoolets Public House, then the Barnhill Tavern. How quiet this […]
Christina Main b1910
This is Christina Main photographed at Little Udston, near Blantyre in the 1920s. Looks like she was doing the milking. She was still milking cows by hand at eighty and […]