Jackie Lindsay, who lives in Wales and is related to the Cochranes who once lived at Calderglen in Blantyre recently emailed me. Her message contained a ghost story which is retold here. Jackie said, “When I visited Calderglen in 1993, owners at the time, Mr & Mrs Welsh were lovely. They were fascinated by what […]
This is the Cochrane family of Calderglen, Blantyre. A remarkable photo from the early 1890’s likely taken at Calderglen estate. Pictured is JR Cochrane the head of the household with wide Mary-Anne Howden together with their son and six daughters. This was not the typical Blantyre family that most of us would think of when […]
It was just a few months into WW1 and many of the battlefield atrocities still had to come, but life was going on in Blantyre and in December 1914, one “Well to do” household allowed themselves a short reprieve for a festive party. The 11th December 1914 (exactly 106 years ago today), was the date […]
Now, I have to admit if I was walking at Calderglen Park and saw this and knowing there was a former castle nearby, I would have walked on thinking it was part of the demolition rubble. To my untrained eye, this looks like a piece of ornate sandstone. However, I would have been wrong in […]
The children attending the E.U. Congregational Church on Craig Street held their annual outing on the afternoon of Saturday 5th August 1916. As war continued in Europe, the children of the Sabbath School (Sunday School) assembled at the church, and were conveyed in lorries kindly granted by the local contractors to Calderglen, the private home […]
Arguably, one of my most favourite Blantyre photos. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you , for the first time seen here, the former Cochrane Chapel, in all its glory, just over 110 years ago! Once located at Calderglen, near where Kirkwall Avenue, Priory Bridge is now, this is an exclusive photo and to best of […]
A photo from around 110 years ago. Behind Jura Drive, at the end of what is now Kirkwall Avenue once stood Cochrane’s Chapel. In what is now woodlands, there was a little memorial graveyard beside the chapel, this stone remembering Pelham Maitland Cochrane. Sheep are in the Calderglen fields where Jura Drive is now. Above […]