George Park recently contacted me with this wonderful family photo. Speaking of the pictured Big Linn, at Calderwood Glen, his photo dates from the late 1950’s. We regularly went for family picnics up the calder. This old picture shows the falls running at a mere trickle compared with other photographs. Summers in the 50’s were generally […]
A word of warning on this story. It may be somewhat disturbing and caution is urged if you’re squeamish. At the Southern end of Blantyre Parish, high up on the fields above Blantyre is the Trough Linn. (older name, The Reekin Linn). Near the old ruins of Laighlyoch Farm, this is a small, but very […]
Photographed by David Ritchie in 1910, these 3 photos of Calderwood Castle are previously unseen online. Calderwood Castle sat on the Parish Boundary, just slightly into the Kilbride side. Photographed here from the River Calder on the Blantyre side, the castle is seen in all its finery. It was real tourist attraction too. People would […]
Photographed here by David Ritchie of Main Street in 1908 are ten well dressed men at the Rotten Calder, High Blantyre. The little building on the right was known as The Hermitage and the bridge crossed from Blantyre Parish into Kilbride’s. This is located beyond Auchentibber, in the Calderwood Glen. This looks like an outing […]
On Stoneymeadow Road, opposite from Calderwood Lodge, is a small private house just off the road. It has an old white gate pictured just to the right of an old stone wall about 3 foot high. Half a meter left of the gate, is an old marker post on the outside wall, . Photographed here […]
On the Stoneymeadow Road, nestled in the old stone wall, directly outside Calderwood Lodge House (just before Allers Farm), is a hole in the wall. It looks quite odd to see a formed hole in the wall, and is believed to once have housed an old post box. I found it fairly strange when pointed […]
Craigneith Castle lay across the waters of the Rotten Calder from Calderwood Castle to the east of East Kilbride on the Blantyre side of the river, and served as accommodation for servants at Calderwood, which technically precludes its later description as a folly. Craigneith, was in fact a folly castle which was titled Craigneith Castle, […]