A week or so ago, I posted about Richard Rankin’s discovery at Crossbasket, an inscription into the rock saying “Wee Yanni Pool”. You can read about that discovery here http://blantyreproject.com/2014/10/12/wee-yanni-pool-crossbasket/ As a follow up story, a few people have commented on a possible theory as to who carved it. Jim Brown went to the scene […]
HOUSES ROCKED BY BLAST Children hurt in Army Exercise A motor car roof was smashed, windows and doors were blown out, and two small children were cut by flying glass when the soldiers of the soldiers of the Territorial Army blew up a 40ft. high washing plant at Dixon’s Colliery, High Blantyre, Lanarkshire, on Sunday […]
During a recent walk around Greenhall and through the Calder, my history enthusiast (and friend) Jim Brown pointed out to me that there was still fruit growing on the old Greenhall orchard. I’d walked past the location a hundred times, yet never stopped to appreciate that there were beautiful apple trees there. There is a […]
On the Stoneymeadow Road, nestled in the old stone wall, directly outside Calderwood Lodge House (just before Allers Farm), is a hole in the wall. It looks quite odd to see a formed hole in the wall, and is believed to once have housed an old post box. I found it fairly strange when pointed […]
Pictured here in 2012 is Calderside Farm in Auchentibber. Located in Blantyre Parish, the farm sits high up on the fields just off Calderside Road and commands impressive views of both Blantyre and East Kilbride. In trying to find out when the farm was built, unfortunately Roys map of 1747 just ends at the field […]
The Priory Bridge is an iconic name and structure in Blantyre that still exists to this day. Whilst the bridge is entirely closed off to traffic for several decades, it still stands proudly as an old monument to Blantyre’s history at the side of the new A724 reprofiled Glasgow Road to the South of the […]
Arthur Brown founded Barnhill Nursery in Summer 1834. The nursery building was made of thatch and sited at the junction of Broompark Road and Hunthill Road, where modern bungalows sit today. Most of the fresh produce he tended to was sold locally to grocers and at times outwith Blantyre itself. Strawberries and Damsons were grown […]