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 […]
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 mother’s side, one John Wallace, was noted as being a ‘Smith’ (blacksmith) from Barnhill. The reference is to be found in Old Parish Records: OPR […]
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 road used to be. Children sit and play in the road, a horse and cart coming into the scene in the foreground. Here’s a better […]
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 lived into her 90s. She never got married. Jim Cochrane, who shared this photo told me, “She lived her whole life as a Farmer and […]