A few people last year asked me for a photo of the tenement buildings that used to be in Cemetery Road. In this photo, a first seen online, Causeystanes in High Blantyre is viewed from above, an aerial photo taken above High Blantyre Main Street in 1964. To the bottom left we have Broompark leading […]
An accident occurred on the morning of Tuesday 31st July 1928 which involved the derailment of a goods train at Broompark Farm, High Blantyre. The farm was tenanted by James Rochead, a former local farmer whose farm once stood alongside the Hamilton to Strathaven railway on the L.M.S. line at a location directly across from where Saint […]
This series of photos was taken by Gordon Cook back in early 2015 when the construction of the first phase of the new Carrigans Building in Broompark Road got underway. The Carrigan family acquired some of the former Larkfield bing and excavation commenced for their new premises in Autumn 2014. Through Autumn and Winter 2014 […]
I recently wrote about a Quoiting Club opening up on the Quoiting ground at Broompark in 1932. However, another club opened perhaps at that location, quite some time earlier. As such, there may have been another Quoiting Ground in High Blantyre. The Sunday Post, dated 16th February 1919, says, “QUOITING. A new club is being […]
Pictured in this series of photos is the Auchentibber Quoiting Green just after the first world war. The ornate Italian gardens and statues surround the playing field, which is now completely overgrown. Correcting Auchentibber history Until very recently, like others online and previously published, I’d assumed quoiting at Auchentibber died out when owner of the […]
I’ve been looking at this photo taken around 1905 or so which is the upper half of the Broompark Quoiting Team photo, recently posted here. I wanted to try and determine which properties these were, especially as one of them at that time, was still thatched. A 1910 map of Causeystanes reveals the location, and […]
I really enjoyed seeing these photos. Perhaps as its not far from my own home. Here, in 1927 is High Blantyre Main Street, photographed from Priestfield looking eastwards towards Hamilton. The photo captures such an everyday scene of life in the 1920’s. The hustle and bustle of shoppers, the business activities going on, the style […]