Joseph O Rourke kindly allowed permission to share this brilliant photo. From 1953, as a boy on the main Blantyreferme road above Fin-me-oot. On the left was Boat Jocks orchard and a field where there were pigs. To the right is the road down to the former Caldervale village. What a delightful photo this is. […]
Continuing the exclusive look at some stunning colourisation of Blantyre photos, today bringing back the magic of the Orchard at Boat Jocks, in all its glory. Incredibly, these photos are 112 years old, dating from 1908. The black and white photos were restored removing their scratches and grainy appearance, sharpened in contrast then sent off […]
All fruit grown at Boathouse, Blantyre (i.e, Apples, Pears, Plums and various Berry fruits) were stocked in the local shops belonging to the Brown family. The Brown’s shops were located at 83 Main Street, Union Buildings, Uddingston, Baillieston was c/oStark 110 Main Street, and the third was in Bothwell. After Archibald died in 1912 and […]
Here’s a list courtesy of Jenny Day, of all the different fruit including types of each grown at Boathouse in the late 19th Century. The former orchards operated as a business, a florists and a market garden and were owned and worked on by Archibald Brown between 1874 and 1912. We may more commonly […]
Speaking back in 2005, the late Blantyre historian Jimmy Cornfield recalled his childhood memories of a daring raid on a local fruit orchard, near Boathouse at Blantyreferme during the late 1930s. Pictured in 1910, is that very orchard at Boat Jocks, with its abundant fruit. “It was a year in my childhood (late 30s) when […]
I wanted to write an extended article on the history of Boat Jock’s which is now extensively researched here with several days work. This has proved to be one of the most interesting things i’ve had the pleasure of looking at and will feature in forthcoming books. In 1667, a new area in Blantyre was […]