This great photo is of Spittal Farm in the 1920’s. A lot of children in this photo. Although outwith Blantyre Parish, this is close by enough to be of interest. I was looking at the map to see if I could identify the burn and think it was taken here at the bend not far […]
When the 59 acres of land was up for sale in Stonefield in 1851, including the Stonefield farm steading (Hasties) and fields where the park is today, its starting price of £2,000 ended up at £2,750 due to keen competition. The buyers being the Forrest family. They may not have realized the extent of […]
In November 1962, to relieve flooding at Stonefield Road and the Public Park, a large outfall sewer was completed. The sewer was dual pipeline and was of sufficient capacity to permit the capture of both sewage and stormwater from all the nearby housing estates at Stonefield Road and the surrounding district. A burn exists at Low […]
Calderwood estate was once dubbed ‘one of the loveliest of western glens, magnificent in its grouping of craggy heights, sprinkled with trees and with the amber-tinted Calder winding through the richly wooded and festooned valley’. It was opened to the public in the early 1900s under the ownership of the Scottish Cooperative Society, but the […]