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 […]
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 […]