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There used to be several curling ponds in Blantyre. One at Whistleberry, another near Milheugh, one at Stonefield Public Park, and another near Greenhall to name a few. This photo dates from the early 1910s and shows the Blantyre Curling team, posing for photos, at what i believe to be the curling pond near Greenhall. […]
I’ve been recently sent several photos of High Blantyre curling pond, which you may have seen on the website already. As I was looking through old 1910 map, I was surprised to see a Curling Pond just off the Whistleberry Road, down on the lower slopes of where Auchinraith House used to be. I’d never […]
Pictured here around 1900 is the Blantyre Curling Team. Alex McWilliam (great, grandfather of Arlene Green) is holding one of the Curling stones ready to take his shot. Many of the men in this team were from High Blantyre and Alex himself was known to farm at Greenhall around the time of this picture. The […]