Caldergrove House was a former large detached villa in its own grounds by the Rotten Calder River. Situated just over the river to the west in Cambuslang Parish, it was accessed by the private road, leading off Glasgow Road across the Priory Bridge and up into its own woodland. The nearby River Calder created the […]
On the 4th July 1872, a dispute arrived in court between the Blantyre estate of Bardykes and the opposing estate over the River Calder, of Caldergrove. The dispute centred around the river itself which formed the boundary between Blantyre and Cambuslang Parishes and clearly the matter couldn’t be resolved by neighbourly discussion. Safe to say […]
This is an exclusive look at this photo, the first time it’s been online. Photographed during WW1 by early Blantyre photographer, David Ritchie, its from the collection of photos once shared to me by Alex Bowie. It was dark and not the best quality, but is brought a little to life by the added colour […]
With this picture having been so beautifully colourised exclusively for Blantyre Project, you may be surprised to know it’s 103 years old! This is the former Caldergrove House, which was once just beyond Priory Bridge. From 1917, the doctors and nurses are pictured who cared for wounded WW1 soldiers who had been brought back from […]
What a wonderful previously unseen photo this is. Clearly staged with more than a hint of Victorian fashions and style, I believe this was taken in 1896 or 1897 by photographer David Ritchie. The image is scanned from negative plates, providing exceptional detail. I think it is the Burns family, who briefly lived at Caldergrove […]
With WW1 “hotting” up in 1916 and an influx of casualties, many properties in Britain became hospitals. In Blantyre, one particular Mansion House became a Hospital. On Saturday 9th October 16, Archibald Russell Limited, the well known firm of coal owners with large interests both in Lanarkshire and the Bannockburn district of Stirlingshire, announced that […]
Showing previously unseen photos, from my own private collection, this is the Eastern Caldergrove Lodge House. Pictured around 1898, you can see Priory Bridge on the left hand side. Caldergrove Lodge House (East) – is a current sandstone house situated near Low Blantyre. Within the Parish of Cambuslang, it sits just over the boundary of […]