Every month, I like to add to my Blantyre collection, either through donations of interesting artefacts or memorabilia or buying interesting things with a Blantyre connection using a (very) small budget.This month I bought this little book and for the first time it was a purchase, not entirely for the content of the book. The […]
Thank you to Jim Cochrane for sharing this photo of High Blantyre Primary on Broompark Road. Do you recognise anybody? Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors said: Traci Smith Yep including myself 😊 Sharyn Phillips Come on then don’t stop there. Where are you Traci […]
Mark Cranston runs the very excellent brick history website at https://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk . He recently contacted me, posting me this small telegram from April 1892, addressed to W&J Cochran of Birdsfield Tile Works, at High Blantyre. The J Cochran(e) of this telegram was JR Cochrane who lived at Calderglen, now the nursing home. He owned the […]
Today I received a wonderful message from Australian, George Cochrane, whose father fought in the First World War and after being injured, was attended to at Caldergrove House, right on the boundary of Blantyre and Cambuslang. For those not aware of Caldergrove, it was a large detached villa in its own grounds by the Rotten Calder […]
Jim Cochrane has kindly shared further photos of Calderside Farm in the 1980’s. In this last set, Jim told me, “The long byre or Big byre held 29 cattle if I remember right and were milked by a pipeline system as you see above them. In total, the farm had 70 cattle in milk […]
Jim Cochrane shared a few more photos of Calderside Farm in the 1980s. He added, “We built these pole barn sheds ourselves. The poles were ex GPO or SSEB and all the wood was supplied by Robert Reid in Hamilton . It was all top class pine from tenaments in Hamilton. Single lengths at 40 […]
With thanks to Jim Cochrane for sharing these. Jim told us, “Here’s some photos of Calderside Farm Steading in the 1980s. Silage and turnips for feeding the dairy Cattle in the 3 Byres. Only 70 dairy cattle in the days before these super herds. This is in the main yard or close only partly concreted […]