Its an outdoor sport long since gone in Blantyre, but curling was once a very popular pastime in this town. In fact Blantyre had several rinks including at the Calder (pictured), Greenhall, Auchinraith and Stonefield. It’s the Stonefield rink which is the subject of our story today. On 25th January 1910, that Burns Night was […]
Looking at this 1859 map of the Auchinraith House estate grounds, theres a small Bowling green located on the Hamilton side of the Parkburn River. Two sets of steps led down from steep slopes and paths, to a flattened area below. An icehouse nearby suggests, it may have been a place for curling in winter, […]
You may remember reading recently about my visit to the old Auchinraith Curling pond. You can read about that here. http://blantyreproject.com/2014/09/04/lost-at-whistleberry-curling-pond/ Blantyre man Gordon Cook recently read the article and has kindly passed me this amazing photo of the Curling team at Auchinraith. Likely to be taken in the late 1890s, it shows various men […]
A wonderful photo, already much more than a century old depicting Blantyre’s Curling Team. The distinguished gentlemen are turned out in their finest atire in 1891 to be photographed after winning the Curling league. They’re pictured at Bellsfield Farm, High Blantyre. They won the cup at Carsebreck Loch which in the 19th century was the […]