I hope nobody minds minor, incidental stories like these. Such events took place over 125 years ago, and do reflect actual events in Blantyre at the time. Such snippets help form a larger picture of what was going on, such as this story about hungry miners. Four Blantyre men, found themselves in bother with the […]
Brown’s Nursery – may have also been known as Brown’s Croft but should not be confused with Brown’s Land, which was in Auchentibber. Arthur Brown founded Barnhill Nursery (sometimes referred to as Brown’s Nursery) in summer 1834. The nursery building was one storey, long and narrow and had a thatched roof sited at the southern […]
This transcribe of Elizabeth Whitelaws (nee Stirling) story is continued from Part 1.…. “At Easter, we had hard boiled eggs which our mother made a different colour in some way known to her. We went to quite a steep hill in a paddock and rolled our eggs to the bottom of the hill. This actually […]