Monica Jean Chizmadia shared these photos of her family, the McGarry’s formerly of Caldervale. She told me, “The black and white picture is everyone that lived in Fin Me Oot. My grandmother Elizabeth is the dark haired woman standing, my father is first on the left. There were only two girls in the whole clan..and […]
At Caldervale (Fin Me Oot), near Blantyre and Uddingston, something bizarre was reported to police in February 1918. One cold February morning, a farmer at Blantyreferme was going his rounds when he came across the skins of two sheep, two heads, and two full sets of trotters lying a field! The carcases had been taken […]
This lovely photo was sent in by Monica Jean Chizmadia. This is her father, Gerard ‘Scotty’ McGarry photographed in Stonefield Public Park, Blantyre around 1950 or so. You can see how popular the park was then, the former boating pond clearly visible. The young trees only a couple of decades old and all at a […]
Taking you back to 1962/1963. A great, but very short video of kids playing in Blantyre at the Timber Houses former playpark. First half is Hamilton. Ends with shots of Caldervale (Fin Me Oot) and Dechmont. PURE nostaliga. I could immerse myself in these sort of videos all day long. Featuring Blantyre Project Social […]
Pictured a few years ago is the River Calder. The location at this point is little known, as it’s a slightly remote just beyond where ‘Fin Me Oot’ was (Caldervale). On the boundary of Blantyre and Newton, the photos are just beyond the small footbridge not far north of the railway. I have to admit, […]
Continuing a look at children’s playground rhymes. In this article, we look at more broad Scottish rhymes of the early 20th Century, which were popular not just in Blantyre, but throughout Scotland as a whole. There are probably many different versions of these. Hopefully this will remind some people of a certain age of […]
In April 1927, Cambuslang Parish Council received word that the County Council of Lanarkshire would bear the cost of erecting a new bridge over the River Calder, a tributary of the Clyde, at the location of Caldervale. For some time, the nearby residents had asked for the building of a bridge, as workers and […]
William Daye, miner, Caldervale Rows, Blantyre, was sentenced to 21 days imprisonment at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Wednesday 16th March 1927 for assaulting the manager of Blantyre Ferme Colliery, near Uddingston. The manager in evidence said that there had been some difficulties in the district owing to the late that there was not work […]