This is the coat of arms of Blantyreferme, one of Blantyre’s oldest farming hamlets. In 1598 within the Great Seal of Scotland, Lord Blantyre was given lands of Blantyre, which included Blantyr-ferme (Blantyre Ferme). The name is a corruption of the old name of Fermeblantyre and even in those early times, Blantyreferme had existed for hundreds of years. […]
Shared here with kind permission from Jim Donnelly are some of his great photos of the recent tree clearance at Blantyre Ferme Road, near the junction at Redlees Urban Park. Jim took these in March this year. Plans were submitted in September 2019 for a brand new roundabout on the outskirts of Blantyre. The proposal […]
Hard to believe, but these photos are now 41 years old. Taken in September 1980, it shows the former chimney at Blantyeferme colliery and brickworks, as contractors rolled in to flatten more of the bings and surrounding fields. It’s quite hard to put the location in context, the chimney now long demolished, so I’ve attached […]
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 […]