This painting shows the Blantyre – Uddingston Ferry on the river Clyde, near Boatland with Bothwell Castle beyond. People may be more familiar with this area as “Boat Jocks”. The oil painting on canvas was done by Alexander Fraser the Younger, (b1828-d1899) and is pictured in 1872 at a time when the Scott family owned […]
In December 2014, Jim Brown posted this interesting photo in the Friends of the Calder Group. An online conversation then started about this being a possible abutment as it was made of stone and peculiar to the surroundings, with a little mystery opened up. The location is the Coal Burn running in a North – […]
Pictured here between 1900 -1910s is the Boatland Crossing. The small ferry boat crossed back and forth from the Uddingston side at this Ferry Path in the foreground on the left, over to the Blantyre side at Boatland, near Blantyre Ferme. Although not dated, these photos are consistent with similar featured postcards of the era. […]
Photographed here by myself in September 2014 is a small stone arch, a pedestrian crossing the Lee Burn (or Lees Burn). This little crossing is directly across from Allers Farm , on the Stoneymeadow Road and crosses from Blantyre Parish into Cambuslang Parish. Looking at old maps, there is nothing on them to suggest where […]
I’ve previously written about a path leading from Glasgow Road down to Blantyre Works Mills called, “The Dandy”. You can read more about it here. http://blantyreproject.com/2014/03/02/origins-of-the-dandy/ This article relates to one particular part of that path, at the point where it crosses over the Caledonian Railway. (The railway line at that point leads out to […]