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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 […]
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 with a well. In the mid 19th Century a few trees were also on the land. It was accessed by the lane next to the […]
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 […]
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 the Calder at Bardykes Road. The woman on the left with the hat is Aggie Bain, the then owner of Barnhill Cottage which is still […]
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 a former cottage, possibly named Saugh Cottage. On the right was a 2 storey tenement building, which you will see from the photo, when I […]