Alan Young recently asked me, “Who owned Craigknowe Farm before my gran bought it? My gran was Lydia Young” Today’s article is more a little note here, a reminder for me to come back to Craigknowe Farm later as I don’t have a lot of notes on this yet. Here’s what I managed to find […]
Not to be confused by the farm of the same name, this is “Craigknowe“, 2 homes on Auchinraith Road, pictured pre-1909, not long after it was built. The houses are still there today at 163 / 165 Auchinraith Road right at the very top near the junction of Main Street. This fantastic photo was sent […]
This is 2nd February 1966. Contractors are slowly but surely in the background removing the Priory Bing. To put into context, in the middle of the photo is Priory Row, which surely must have been demolished very shortly after this? To the left is Craigknowe and trees in the background left of Calderglen. In the […]
Blantyre Railway Station and the surround railway line was the location for disturbing scenes of football hooliganism…..in September 1927. A football match had taken place between Blantyre Vics and Parkhead on Saturday 10th September 1927. It was filled with tension as Vics had been beaten by that club 5-1 2 weeks earlier, but in […]
Continuing my look at Blantyre Rights of way (legal routes where people can walk through land owned by others). Taken from a council book of the late 1970’s, kindly given to me to keep, from Robert Stewart. “This right of way starts at the junction of Station Road and Knightswood Terrace, just below Blantyre Station. […]
These two great photos are taken in the 1920s at Blantyre Priory. They show substantially much more ruins that are actually there today. Pictured in some detail are the windows , doors and lintols giving an indication of the scale the building once used to be. The Priory stood fairly intact over the centuries since […]