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 […]
Jim Cochrane kindly shared this photo, adding, “This picture taken in 1910 is of Christina and Robert Main. They were Born at Barnhill in a house Roughly where 130 Broompark road is now. They were My Gran Marshalls older sibblings . Christina was born on 10 June 1909 and lived untill she was almost […]
Mr. James Brownlie or Brownlee (Snr) was born Sunday 22nd June 1845 at Blantyre and lived to very old age. He was born in the old Hoolit’s Nest Inn, which was then owned by his father, Mr. William Brownlie. Indeed the Brownlie family had already been resident in Blantyre above 300 years. His first school […]
Thomas Taylor, was a man greatly in advance of his times. The Blantyre man was an inventor of one of the earliest reaping machines and Blantyre readers will be proud to know that he (attempted) to make one of the First Flying Machines, a full 43 years before the successful flight of the Wright Brothers […]
The woodland paths at Barnhill were getting very overgrown, so it was great news when, in Summer 2015, the Community Payback team at Barnhill cleared the paths of vegetation. Not just the sides, but the steps too, making them passable again. Thanks to Jo Birkin (South Lanarkshire Council Ranger) for the before and after photos. […]
This photo published in 1904 by Gilmours has kindly been scanned in at high resolution and shared here. I’ve been able to capture the photo in zoomed in sections to show a little more detail than would normally be seen. This rare scene is Bardykes Road, Barnhill. It’s 1904 and pictured is the Barnhill Tavern […]