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The last two photos in the set showing Blantyreferme and the efforts made in September 1986 to reduce the former Colliery Bing. The farm fields next to the main Blantyreferme Road were restored by a significant reduction in levels, removing much of the bing, that had been there for almost 100 years before. Amongst the […]
Photos next from September 1986 and to the north of Blantyre is Blantyreferme. This photos represent the reduction of the Colliery bings, a significant effort to restore the ground back closer to the existing field levels. The large remnants of the colliery bings removed and taken away, removing most of the signs of the former […]
Summer holidays bring about thoughts of far off day trips, but with war still on 104 years ago, some Blantyre families stayed much closer to home. The local children attending the Salvation Army’s Sabbath School held their annual excursion on the afternoon of Saturday, 1st July 1916. The children, along with a goodly number of […]
This commonly produced postcard was recently on e-bay and has title, ‘The Boat House, Uddingston”. Actually it would be better phrased saying “Viewed from Uddingston”, for the boathouse at Boatland, Blantyreferme was actually in Blantyre Parish on the western side of the River Clyde boundary. The buildings were old. One of them had 1667 above […]
Let’s go back to 1977 next. Some 43 years ago. This was taken from the side of the former Blantyreferme Colliery Bing. The road to Uddingston is shown going under the railway. In the background is Haughhead and to the left, just out the picture was the site of Caldervale (Fin Me oot). This was […]
The ruins of S.B.S Brickworks at Blantyreferme are pictured 40 years ago in May 1979. A throwback to former industry in the outskirts of Blantyre.
These two photos were taken in May 1976. Pictured from the top of the former Blantyreferme Bing is the demolished brickworks and colliery site. You can see Blantyreferme Road on the left and the road tunnel under the railway line. This whole area in the foreground is now levelled and covered in young woodland. Turning […]
Next, the story of a young ‘drawer’ who was caught raiding an orchard. (A ‘drawer’ was usually a boy or young man who pushed wagons of coal from the coal face to the pit eye or shaft. William Nichol worked in such a profession. Living at 18 Caldervale Rows, Blantyre (Fin Me Oot), William had […]
At Caldervale (Fin Me Oot), near Blantyre and Uddingston, something bizarre was reported to police in February 1918. One cold February morning, a farmer at Blantyreferme was going his rounds when he came across the skins of two sheep, two heads, and two full sets of trotters lying a field! The carcases had been taken […]