If your Blantyre ancestor was a farm servant, dairymaid, farmer or an agricultural labourer, then he or she may have been employed on one or more of Blantyre’s fermtouns (farm towns). Before the industrial revolution and the availability of work in large towns, a substantial percentage of the population lived and worked in the countryside. […]
It has been previously written in 2004 by a respected late Blantyre author that Blantyre had 26 farms. Unfortunately, this is something I don’t agree with. Within Blantyre Parish, I’m proposing there were actually 38 farms. Listing them in alphabetical order, there were/are as follows: 1 Auchentibber Farm 2 Bardykes Farm 3 Barnhill Farm 4 Barnhill Wee Farm 5 […]
Jim Cochrane sent in this photo, saying, “Cutting barley at Malcolmwood early 1990s. The man at Caldergrove has now chopped all these trees down in the Background.” Malcolmwood Farm actually sits slightly outwith Blantyre Parish on the Cambuslang side of the Rotten Calder river.