Can you imagine how excited Blantyre residents would have been to hear Electricity was being arranged to power certain street lights, rather than having none or having lights requiring to be lit by gas. In 1905, the electric future could be seen “around the corner” as authorities announced the provision of electric cables to power […]
Every now and again a little gem of a photo arrives. This amazing photo was sent to me from James D Brown via his cousin in London. The tall man in the photo is Mr George Brown, the great grandfather of James. The story given was that he was one of the people responsible for […]
Pictured here amongst the mature woodland trees at Greenhall, are the remains of early electrical conductors and cable insulators, amongst the first to run electricity into Greenhall House. Jim Brown’s photo of 2009 shows how the trees themselves were used as the electrical poles, utilising a ready made way of protecting and running in the […]