Today, I want to honour somebody contemporary who does so much for Blantyre and deserves his story to be told. Mr. William Gallacher is better known as Billy. Billy is one of Blantyre’s contemporary and recognised personalities of present day Blantyre. He is most known as being an ex footballer and associated with Old Parish […]
I’ve recently posted about Brown’s Land. For completeness, here are some more photos shared here by Gordon Cook, which he took of the interior of the Brown’s land ruin in Auchentibber, during 2012. You can read all about the history of this former tenement on Sydes Brae at Blantyre Project’s website at http://www.blantyreproject.com
In August 2015, I took some photos at Brown’s Land, in particular the plot of land at the side of the Auchentibber building, which I knew used to be allotments. Blantyre’s Gordon Cook was able to offer me some more information when we were discussing it shortly after. The plots actually date from the Great War, […]
Until August 2015, I thought this building was named Peasweep, but recently found out that Peasweep was the row across the road from it, when in fact, this ruin was actually called Brown’s Land. Located just beyond the Auchentibber Road junction, actually on Parkneuk Road, going up Sydes Brae on the left hand side was […]
Over the last few years, I’ve heard various people say they had relatives that lived at Peasweep Row, Auchentibber. I’ve decided to look at that location, to see if I could add some details to this. In an offline book by others, I have read that Peasweep Row was a tenement in Auchentibber, but actually […]
In August 2015, Jane Bainbridge (nee Gallacher) contacted me saying, “I loved reading your Nimmo story on Auchentibber. My Dad Robert Gallacher was also born in Auchentibber in 1937. He was one of 11 children (although there was one boy James who died). His parents were Catherine Purse and John Gallacher (later Gallagher.) My uncle […]