Another great photo of Stoneymeadow Junction. With view beyond up to the “Lady Nancy” fields, this is the junction at Stoneymeadow as if coming from Dechmont. On the right, the former Boyd’s Farm by this era given itself over to a being a little shop. The shop on the right are now demolished, the land […]
By 1793, applications were approved for a Tollhouse to be created on the Turnpike road at the Dalton Junction of Stoneymeadow Road, High Blantyre. There were no other buildings there at the time, so it is likely that the first building there dates from the mid to late 1790’s. Built in stone and perhaps […]
This photo shows the former Stoneymeadow Tollhouse, and subsequently later, the Boyds Farm around 1905. Around the 1870’s, the Boyds had sold up and left for New Zealand, and the property no longer afterwards was a working farm. The building located at the junction of Stoneymeadow Road and Dalton was by this time, a most […]