This photo dates from the 1960s. Pictured are the ruins of Craigneith Castle, near Calderside. Nothing much remains of this building today, except for ruins about 7 foot tall. The castle was likely a folly, a romantic extension of the nearby Calderwood Castle, although unlike Calderwood Castle, Criagneith sat on the Blantyre side of the […]
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 […]
A wonderful and huge tapestry adorns the wall above the fireplace in the first room to be renovated at Crossbasket Castle. A grand statement of the luxury intended for this whole building. The photo may not give a sense of scale, but needless to say those figures are life size. The tapestry was hung in […]
You may have read or heard about the possibility of a Tunnel that used to run below the Blantyre Priory and Bothwell Castle. We eluded to this previously in our article http://blantyreproject.com/2012/11/01/bothwell-to-blantyre-tunnel/ where a Victorian Account detailed that a tunnel in the form of a vaulted passageway used to exist, but would suggest that even […]
Across the river from Calderwood Castle and to the north-east, perched above a range of cliffs on the Blantyre side or the river, lay Craigneith Castle. This was Blantyre’s castle. The style of masonry suggests erection between 1750 and 1850. The building fulfilled three functions. It provided accommodation for three of the Calderwood Castle servants. […]
Although Calderwood Castle is not in our Blantyre Parish, the one time Baronet, Sir William Maxwell ,whose seat it was, used to be a heritor of Blantyre with a large property and business interest in Blantyre in the 18th Century. This article below gives a little bit of background about the Castle and more importantly […]
It’s important that the “old stories” and “anectodes” of old Blantyre are told over again. These tales and legends shouldn’t be lost in our busy, daily lives. The Annals of Blantyre book of 1883 gives an account of a story passed down from 1745. Printed in full as follows: “Mr Moore of Greenhall has a […]