At the start of October 1895, the Hamilton Advertiser reported that the Blantyre Curling Club held a meeting on 30th September 1895 at Mr Blackley’s new hall. This is surely a reference to the hall adjoining Blackley’s Pub in High Blantyre at the junction of Broompark Road and Main Street. Built just before this as […]
Pictured here around 1900 is the Blantyre Curling Team. Alex McWilliam (great, grandfather of Arlene Green) is holding one of the Curling stones ready to take his shot. Many of the men in this team were from High Blantyre and Alex himself was known to farm at Greenhall around the time of this picture. The […]
Photographed by Paul Veverka during April 2014, the Silver Birch woodland that has sprang up and engulfing the old curling pond at the Niaroo Location, Near Pathfoot, Pech Brae, Barnhill. Blantyre’s old places ARE getting covered. Not just by man, but by nature too.