An excellent poem about Blantyre’s Northern Boundary along the River Clyde. This was written by the the late James Cornfield back in 2006 and is added to the large, growing collection of Blantyre poems in the history archives at: https://blantyreproject.com/reference/blantyre-poems/ Pictured very aptly, alongside this post is a boy at the River Clyde near Boatland, […]
It pains me to say this, but Hamilton Technology Park is actually IN Blantyre. It is within the boundaries of Blantyre Parish and really should have been called ‘Blantyre Technology Park’. It annoys me greatly that the boundary doesn’t appear to be considered in the naming of the park, which is now a major central […]
It may come as a surprise to people that some properties in modern day Blantyre, aren’t actually IN Blantyre Parish. i.e they are only classed as Blantyre as they’re near Blantyre. Properties like Malcolmwood Farm and Caldergrove, which although just down the Pech Brae and having a Blantyre postal address, is actually officially in Cambuslang […]