This next cine film was taken in the early 1960s. Featuring boys playing on the disused railway which cut through the middle of Blantyre. Also a local family camping trip up to the high fields at Basket and Calderside. 2 minutes of nostalgia and snapshot in time. With thanks to Sanny McVicar for sharing.
Jim Cochrane has kindly shared further photos of Calderside Farm in the 1980’s. In this last set, Jim told me, “The long byre or Big byre held 29 cattle if I remember right and were milked by a pipeline system as you see above them. In total, the farm had 70 cattle in milk […]
This aerial photo from Summer 2016 was taken at Calderside, High Blantyre. Beyond Auchentibber in Blantyre’s uppermost fields are 2 relatively new wind turbines. These 2 turbines are particularly hidden from view from most people in Blantyre and according to my notes were erected in July and August 2015 behind Calderside Farm, not far […]
Basket Farm had the largest arable Farm area in the Parish but had nowhere near the same size steading as say nearby Calderside. The farm had a thrashing mill installed after 1750, which existed right up until the 1990’s. The mill was powered by horsepower. Today, Basket Farm is owned by the Raeburn family, who […]
Described in 1859 as, “A Farm Steading, the property of the Right Honble. [Honourable] Charles Lord Blantyre. ” Blantyre Muir” comes as far as the Road south of this Farm.” In 1879, Mr James Young or nearby Edge Farm had ownership of Lodgehill. Just 2 years later it was known to be uninhabited by 1881. […]
This wedding photo has been shared by Jim Cochrane. He told me, “Donald Marshalls Wedding to his new Bride Nettie. Netties Sister on the Left is the Bridesmaid and Robert Marshall is his best Man. I will need to get an exact date, but I believe it’s not long after WW2. Both my uncle Donny […]
On 30th August 2015, a mystery was presented to me, and solved in the same day by another person. Blantyre man Gordon Cook took this photo in 1974. He asked, “The photo is just before McFarlane’s scrap yard, where the wee car park is today before you turn the corner into Calderside and on to Camp […]