Coatshill Cottage – or later Coatshill House was constructed in winter 1870 and spring 1871 by owner James Naismith, who had in the 1860’s taken over Coatshill Farm and land from the Coats family. It was a former 2 storey detached moderately sized house, situated directly across from the local shops at the foot of […]
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1747 Low Blantyre Map
This section of the 1747 Blantyre map provides a wonderful insight into how sparsely populated Blantyre was at that time. Remember, around this time, the population of Blantyre was merely around 500 people. This was 40 years before the arrival of the mills and at the time of this map, was a very sleepy, rural […]