Yesterday, I wrote about the Blantyre Beekeepers Association and the honey show they held at Priestfield, High Blantyre in 1895. Well, remarkably, here’s a photo of one of the hives being tended to by a Blantyre man. Some background first…. In May 2016, I received an email from Norma Marr, a kind woman in Canada, […]
Norma Marr in Canada has shared this excellent WW2 photo of Calderside Row, taken around 1944. She told me, “This is May MacFarlane, my mother Margaret Downie Patrick Lawrence, and her/their Aunt Fanny and Uncle Frank, according to mom’s writing on the back. My father was English and in the RAF and came to Calgary to […]
Calderside Row was a former single storey row of stone built, terraced homes, at Calderside, High Blantyre. Background In July 1850, Mr. William Young, farmer and owner of Calderside Farm put his farm and all 177 acres of farmland up for sale. Within the advert of 19th July 1850 in the Glasgow Herald, it was […]
Thank you to Norma Marr for sending this nice photo and incredibly the envelope and letter still intact from 1911. Sent to relatives in Canada, this photo features High Blantyre families from that year. The people are known to have lived in the Auchentibber area and are part of Normas ancestry line. From left to right […]
Glebe Cottage was a former, substantial double villa dating from between 1875 and 1879 located on Craigmuir Road immediately adjacent to the High Blantyre Station. The land was owned by the church, in particular with Rev. Stewart Wright noted as being the owner in the Valuation 1875 roll, which indicated “Glebe Land” with no indication […]
Pictured here in 1905 is Kirkton Top Cross, in High Blantyre. This row of houses, shops and pubs was built in 1865 and is no longer there. Looking at this scene today, you would see the coal monument to the 1877 pit disaster. The two storey tenemental type buildings were largely owned by the Downie […]
On Friday 20th November 1840, a meeting took place in Glasgow of several businessmen to discuss procuring a statue of the Duke of Wellington and erecting it in Royal Exchange Square. On the committee, and one of the major subscribers to the cost of the new statue, was Mr. Alexander Downie of Crossbasket. Today, in 2015, […]