Flora Devine (nee Loughran) is pictured here in the mid 1930’s along with other residents of Calderdale (Fin Me Oot). Flora is marked with an arrow. I can imagine these women looking after their households, tending the house and kids whilst the men were in the pit. I bet they worked just as hard as […]
In 1908, an event occurred which threatened the eviction of almost all the residents at the former mining community of Caldervale (Fin Me Oot). A huge strike at the nearby colliery in late Summer/ Autumn of 1908 saw 450 miners “down tools” in protest at the “contracting out” system. By the end of the 12th […]
In late October 1909, several residents of Caldervale, (Fin me Oot) were involved in a railway accident whilst out walking. A warning this post contains some upsetting content. The accident occurred at Newton, in Cambuslang Parish. Margaret McKerney or McAllister, aged fifty-one, residing at 34 Caldervale Rows, Blantyre, and Robert McAllister, her husband, along with […]
Christine McGarry Shore shared these photos. This is the McGarry family. They all lived in Caldervale (Fin Me Oot) in the 1930’s – 1940’s. All but two immigrated to the United States. Christine told me, “My paternal grandfather was Edward McGarry. The top photo was him with 9 of his siblings (there were 13 in […]
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 […]