Whilst renovating my wife’s photography studio in High Blantyre in 2014, we covered up the old fireplace because a modern studio, does not need a fire. The building at Croftfoot, Main Street is one of the oldest existing homes in Blantyre built in 1730 and it was no surprise to find a few features from that era. […]
With the right hand side of the 18th Century farmhouse Croftfoot, High Blantyre now finally renovated, this Spring saw a return of life to this building. The renovation undertaken by myself in 2014 transformed the derelict property in a modern Studio attached to our own home. Springtime 2015, finally saw new signs going up, which […]
On 23rd February 2013, I was turning over the earth in my back garden ahead of springtime planting. This was a day I will remember. I saw something shine, out of the corner of my eye. Reaching down, I scratched away the soil from what quickly became apparent as being a brooch. I could have […]
Picturesquely situated and beautifully laid out, were the grounds of Milheugh House, High Blantyre admirably suited for the Summer garden fete held on Saturday 28th August 1915. With funds raised on behalf of Blantyre Cottage Hospital, this fete was to lift spirits as the people of Blantyre endured a further year of the first World […]
I’m always finding out something new about my home in High Blantyre. Yesterday was no exception. I live at Croftfoot, a 280 year old house that sits beside Kirkton Park. Whilst tidying up, I noticed for the first time, that initials were carved into one of the sandstone blocks on the wall. It would have […]
A nice email this week from the previous owner of my home at Croftfoot, High Blantyre. John Whyte, who lived there in the 1950s and 1960s emailed me this which contained enough nice references for me to post his email here, “I’ve sent a photograph again (of Croftfoot 1957) with arrow pointing to the door […]
Thank you to Lisa Whyte who contacted me recently with some further information about my home, Croftfoot in High Blantyre. Lisa told me that her fathers family used to live there in the 1950s and 60s. The photograph looks like 1960 or so. Her dad, John Whyte kindly wrote some words about his time living […]