When I saw this photo yesterday and heard Harrison Ford was filming the next Indiana Jones movie in Scotland, for a moment, I hoped this was taken ‘doon the Cawther’ in Blantyre! I had an image of him standing on Snake Island at Milheugh, hands in the air shouting, “Snakes…why does it always have to […]
Now here’s a charming, beautiful photo filled with nostalgia. Three children walk down the Pech Brae at the Calder past the former cottage. Not far from Niaroo. Taken in 1953, some 66 years ago, theres a closeness with each of them, perhaps siblings? It’s amazing what can be found in a photo with a little […]
A modern myth seems to have manifested in recent years. It is said that you cannot cross the Blantyre Parish Boundary without stepping over water, based on the fact that the Parish Boundaries are the River Clyde to the North, The River Calder to the West, The RottenBurn to the south and the Park […]
Taking you to the 1940s’ Calder next. This lovely, clear photo dates from the 1940’s and shows Milheugh Bridge, near the Pech Brae, at the bottom of Lindsay Hill. In particular the former bridge is featured, one which was demolished in the 1950’s. Men stand by the river fishing with rods, onlookers stand on […]
Don’t know even where to start with all the thousands of photos our family has taken over the years! I fully intend on sorting them into dates and writing on the back of them, who when, where etc. I think this photo is Winter 1970. Here’s my mother Janet Veverka (nee Duncan) at Milheugh […]
I’ve previously written about Blantyre squatters living at the former Milheugh House at the Calder, in the mid 1940s. This newspaper article from The Glasgow Herald, from Saturday 24th April 1945, provides some more detail on that story. To put the Blantyre events firmly in a global time context, 2 days later, Adolf Hitler committed […]
Goodness knows we could all do with seeing some sunshine, warmth and greenery again in these Winter months and dark nights. I’ve been saving these photos for such a purpose. Sent in to Blantyre project by Les Hoggan back in June this year, Les captured the beauty and warmth of Greenhall and the Calder to […]