In June 2015, I was contacted by Elizabeth Lorimer who lives in Toronto, Canada. Elizabeth asked, “Hello. In my genealogy research, I have found ancestors living at Little Udston, in the civil parish of Hamilton, in the 1871 census of the Civil Parish of Hamilton. Their neighbors in the census lived at Udston Farm. Are […]
Whilst out walking in January 2015, I stopped to take these couple of photos of Auchentibber Farm, on Auchentibber Road. A cold, windy day, I couldn’t help but think the farm looks a little run down and tired, a shame after it being renovated not such a long time ago. Photographing it on a grey, […]
Not to be confused with the large grand house at Greenhall Estate, there was also a Greenhall Farmhouse located near the boundary with Crossbasket Estate. Pictured here in 2004 its its final months by Nick Rice, Greenhall Farmhouse. The earliest record I can find of Greenhall Farm House is on the 1747 map, where the […]
Jim Cochrane sent in this photo from his family collection in November 2014. Pictured is Robert Main, his Great Grandfather at Little Udston Farm, which sat just below Park House on the North of the railway. Little Udston Farm, as located just over the Redburn, sat in what is now Westcraigs in Burnbank Parish, but […]
This photo dates from the 1930’s and was taken at Priestfield Farm. The brick buildings in the foreground were the Co-op Wash houses, just off Main Street, High Blantyre. A lady sits in the sun in the foreground with a pram beside a big washing. In the background, an empty tractor sits in the middle […]
From John Dunsmuir Collection, this photo of Barnhill was taken around 1915. Looking West to the Calder, the scene is very quiet with three ladies posing for the camera. On the left, the little white houses led down to the Nursery at the corner of Broompark Road and Hunthill Road. The smiddy is just out […]
Pictured here in 2012 is Calderside Farm in Auchentibber. Located in Blantyre Parish, the farm sits high up on the fields just off Calderside Road and commands impressive views of both Blantyre and East Kilbride. In trying to find out when the farm was built, unfortunately Roys map of 1747 just ends at the field […]