Mr and Mrs J.R Cochrane of Calderglen Estate were congratulated by their servants and employees at the end of January 1900. The occasion was a happy one when those wealthy owners of Calderglen House put on a lavish supper in the main dining room on Tuesday 30th January for all their staff to recognise […]
Miss Janet Anderson died on Tuesday 27th May 1879. The dairymaid from Calderglen was killed under shocking circumstances on the railway near Blantyre. She had been at Hamilton and travelled by train to Low Blantyre Station, alighting there. She decided then to take a short cut along the line, which directly passed by Calderglen. She was […]
I’ve previously written about a little 1884 ruined chapel at Calderglen, the article here: https://blantyreproject.com/2014/06/02/cochranes-chapel-blantyre/ However, back in February 2016, on a particularly rainy weekend, I set off with Gordon Cook and Alex Rochead to the location of the chapel, armed with a shovel, to see if we could find anything. The purpose primarily was to […]
You may have seen this postcard which features an Ambulance in Blantyre during World War 1. Information published by others has been incorrect in both a published book and online and I wanted to correct the detail here. From October 1914, Blantyre residents were engaged in raising money to build and equip a motor ambulance […]
One cold morning in January 2015, I set off on a walk to Sydes Brae and found myself at the end of Auchentibber Road at Calderside. Despite grey skies, the trees and scenery still managed to captivate me, with its excellent views down to Calderglen and out across to East Kilbride. The mature trees, quite […]
The area of Calderwood Glen continues to fascinate me. Whilst only half the glen is in Blantyre Parish, there are lots of interesting features and stories to be told for this area as a whole. On a path on the opposite bank of the River Calder from the Hermitage building was a small natural spring, […]
On 5th September 1921, a will was lodged for John Richard Cochrane, Justice of the Peace and owner of Calderglen House, Low Blantyre. A considerably wealthy man was many business interests, the will proved to be complex at 36 pages and certainly gave an insight into how comfortable this family was. Too extensive to type out, […]