On Wednesday 6th March 1958, the last man to have seen David Livingstone died. Mr Alexander Sommerville Scott of Cantislaw Farm, East Kilbride was 99 when he passed away and was a Blantyre man originally. He was a month away from his 100th birthday. Born in High Blantyre in 1859, he was educated at […]
Continuing with a few extracts from my Crossbasket Book. “Speaking of nearby Mains Castle in East Kilbride, the house of the Lindsays, in particular, the ruins of it in 1793, “It is wholly in ruins,” said David Ure early historian of Kilbride, “except the tower, which is pretty entire. At the west end of it, […]
Pictured here is extraordinary resolution is Calderwood Castle. Remarkably, the photo was taken in 1910, over 105 years ago, the glass plate captured by High Blantyre photographer David Ritchie. I’ve sub divided the image up into separate areas of interest, each highlighting some detail otherwise hidden by the original image. Of particular interest are the ornate […]
29th October 1963 in the Fifth District County Minutes. A proposal was raised as what was to be done with the redundant and derelict Greenhall House. By then, in ownership of the council a note appeared in the minutes proposing to temporarily lease the House to East Kilbride Town Council, (presumably as there own offices, […]
Jim Cochrane kindly shared this information and photo. “My Gran Annie Main on the right of the photo left school when she was 14 and then went to work in Service . She went to work at Broompark Farm Blantyre For the Rocheads. Then she went to Netheraffleck Farm Kirkfieldbank, Lanark where this picture was […]
Thanks to Robert Stewart for sending this photo in. Taken 18 years ago in 1996, pictured from Basket, is the East Kilbride Expressway, looking up towards East Kilbride. Having been there recently, i have to say the scene looks almost exactly the same, the only exception being the cars , which here are starting to […]
It may come as a surprise to people that some properties in modern day Blantyre, aren’t actually IN Blantyre Parish. i.e they are only classed as Blantyre as they’re near Blantyre. Properties like Malcolmwood Farm and Caldergrove, which although just down the Pech Brae and having a Blantyre postal address, is actually officially in Cambuslang […]