This photo from around 1900 is Christina Brown, (nee Braid), the wife of Archibald Brown of Boathouse. She’s standing outside her Uddingston shop. All fruit grown at Boathouse, Blantyre e.g, Apples, Pears, Plums and various Berry fruits were stocked in this shop along with goods imported from Holland, wooden shoes, bulbs etc. Most likely, there were […]
Narrative shared by Jenny Day, “Archibald, or as he was more usually known, Arch was the second son and the third of the nine children of Thomas Brown and Catherine McLean. Thomas was the gardener at Orchard House, near Braidwood. Arch was named after his mother’s father, using the Scottish naming system. Arch is […]
An incredible and rare photo in brilliant quality of an old train going over the Craighead Viaduct. This 1903 photo was in a small booklet of old photos taken of Low Blantyre given to me some time ago. I’ve scanned it in good resolution to pick out some details. I can just imagine the […]
At 3pm on Wednesday the 29th August 1928, the diary of Alexander MacCallum Scott washed up on the shore of Discovery Bay, Canada. Why this is relevant to Blantyre Project is due to the fact that McCallum Scott was a Blantyre man, an MP, who died an early death in a foreign, early passenger […]
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 […]
Mr. Patrick Scott – owner of Boathouse in the 19th Century. During 1859, he owned Boathouse Cottage, near Blantyreferme. He was renting it out to Mrs. Ellen Martin. His grandson, Mr. A.McCallum wrote in his diary about Patrick Scott. “He kept a barrel of salted fish in his kitchen and was reputed to dish […]
Concerns amongst people in Blantyre about their right to walk alongside the River Clyde were relayed to local councillors in October 1930. The article in Motherwell Times stated, “The near future likely is to see a bit of furore over an ancient right-of-way leading to the River Clyde. The path has been closed to the […]