The content discusses an animated photo from over 115 years ago, depicting Boyd’s Farm at Stoneymeadow Road and Dalton. The creator offers limited animations monthly, emphasizing their interest and acknowledging that these AI animations cannot replace real films. The former farm later became a shop, but the building is now gone.
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Stoneymeadow Junction
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 […]
1900 Stoneymeadow Farm
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 […]
1905 Stoneymeadow Sweet shop
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 […]




