This wee cottage at Barnhill has changed a fair bit over the years. Pictured here in Summer 2005, Robert Stewart has shared his picture, which admittedly, he was trying to photoshop out the wires and poles for a more older feel to the picture. Aggie Bains cottage sits directly across from the Hoolets Pub, with […]
In Spring 2014, I was given a copy of an old account of various historical events in Blantyre, primarily centering around Barnhill. This old account was given to Alex Rochead’s wife when she was a teacher at Auchinraith Primary. The words were actually written much earlier around 1940 and they actually relate to events 80 […]
I had to double take when this pictured arrived with me. Pictured is Aggie Bains cottage on Bardykes Road, complete with the little lane and the Barnhill Tavern. However, it’s not the 1933 picture that you may have seen before. It was photographed on a misty Boxing day in December 2014, by Robert Stewart. I […]
A beautiful painting now made available by South Lanarkshire Museums. The scene is Barnhill in 1924 and the artist is none other than Blantyre’s late historian Neil Gordon. Neil painted the scene in oils in 1973 from a photograph of the same 1924 scene. He donated the painting to Lanarkshire Museum as part of their […]
You may have seen this postcard before, and I’m not in the habit of repeating content on this site, but if you look closely, the postcard has been remastered and is probably the best quality found online. The work is the effort of George Park, who visited my home with his mother and aunt in […]
For several years I have said the Barnhill Tavern is probably Blantyre’s oldest pub dating back to around 1745. I still believe that to be the case, however, I was recently reminded the current building on Bardykes Road is not the original building and is a more recent rebuild. Whilst a pub of that name […]
On 20th December 2014, Karen Morrison of Queenstown, New Zealand contacted me with a brief message saying, “Hi Paul, my father was from Blantrye and I’m trying to put together a family tree. He came to NZ when he was about 17, both my grandparents were from there. My father’s name is John Morrison, they […]