This beautiful painting observed from the Blantyre side of the River Clyde shows the ruins of Bothwell Castle during 1768. Painted by Paul Sandby, it shows one of the former river crossings, this one near to the Priory. A family stand in the foreground, the woman holding a large fishing net, perhaps to catch a […]
Another charming illustration of Bothwell Castle ruins, pictured from the Blantyre side during the 19th Century. The scene is little different today, but you may be hard pressed to see cows by the riverside!
Here’s a 19th Century engraving published by Young Brothers of Glasgow. Looking south, it prominently shows the ruins of Bothwell Castle looking upstream of the River Clyde. Uddingston’s Ferry Road on the left and Boatland on the right. The topography is somewhat exaggerated likely to fit everything of interest into the one scene, but it […]
Well, this castle may be familiar. It is of course BOTHWELL CASTLE, a reconstruction showing how it may have looked like in its glorious days before battles and invasion. Can you imagine this castle over 700 years ago, looking like this, majestic standing above a River Clyde abundant with Salmon and overlooking a newly built […]
How about this for an amazing picture! Captured by a drone above the Priory Plantation woodland on the Blantyre side of the Clyde, it looks northwards over to Bothwell Castle and beyond. Taken in Summer 2018. You can see the narrowing of the river at the bend, where once in the mid 1940’s the Priory […]
This postcard dates from around the 1910s and of course shows the ruins of Bothwell Castle. Pictured is the interior and at a time before the castle was opened to the public as a tourist attraction. Nearby at this time was former Bothwell House, which would have had a fine view over to these ruins. […]
This illustration dates from 1778 and shows in some detail the ruins of Bothwell Castle. Pictured from the inside, the scene is not too different today. Bothwell Castle’s construction started c1245 but wasn’t finished by the wars of Independence. It fell out of use c1645. It was used as a walled garden for the new Bothwell […]
This fantastic photo from a small publication in 1937 or 1938 shows of course Blantyre Priory with Bothwell Castle in the background. Unlike today , the Priory was not located within dense woodland, but was still partially out on the open, beside the fields which are now Priory Playing fields. The woodland however, has […]