Born at Blantyre in the late 1800’s, he attended country school for his early education, although later finished off the Academy at Glasgow. From the earliest days showed an interest in the sea and its ships, and it was therefore not altogether surprising that when the time arrived for him to leave his scholastic […]
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Calderview & Captain George S Barr
“Calderview”, was a building which once stood on Hunthill Road at the corner of Stonefield Crescent. It had the address of 55, 56, 58, 60 and 62 Hunthill Road. There are no entries for Calderview on the 1905 Valuation roll, but the building is on the 1898 map, indicating that it may have been called […]