Situated at Blantyreferme, Boathouse Farmhouse was a small three roomed stone built house with a kitchen. It had a large storage loft at the top of it, which was entered by a permanent large ladder situated on the gable wall of the cottage. (as pictured in 1910). A bed for the servant girl was built […]
A photo by Thomas Annan, and an old photo at that! Taken in 1870, the subject is obviously the Bothwell Castle and River Clyde. The old negative plates offer great clarity and resolution over towards the ferry crossing on the Blantyre side, a little upstream from the Priory. Gordon Cook once gave me some […]