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 […]
I’m unsure of the exact date of this photo but would guess it’s 1920s or 1930s. Pictured is Calderwood Castle, from the Blantyre side of the Rotten Calder River. Just down from this on the right hand side is Blantyre’s Craigneith area up at the High Calder beyond Crossbasket. Several old postcards of Calderwood Castle […]
Although this is a modern photo by Jim Brown, the tunnel itself dates from 1967. This co-incides with the opening of the Crossbasket stretch of the A725 East Kilbride Expressway, leading up to East Kilbride. The tunnel permits water coming off the upper Southern slopes of Blantyre to safely travel under the expressway heading back […]
Although Calderwood Castle is not in our Blantyre Parish, the one time Baronet, Sir William Maxwell ,whose seat it was, used to be a heritor of Blantyre with a large property and business interest in Blantyre in the 18th Century. This article below gives a little bit of background about the Castle and more importantly […]