Monica Jean Chizmadia shared these photos of her family, the McGarry’s formerly of Caldervale. She told me, “The black and white picture is everyone that lived in Fin Me Oot. My grandmother Elizabeth is the dark haired woman standing, my father is first on the left. There were only two girls in the whole clan..and […]
Next, the story of a young ‘drawer’ who was caught raiding an orchard. (A ‘drawer’ was usually a boy or young man who pushed wagons of coal from the coal face to the pit eye or shaft. William Nichol worked in such a profession. Living at 18 Caldervale Rows, Blantyre (Fin Me Oot), William had […]
This lovely photo was sent in by Monica Jean Chizmadia. This is her father, Gerard ‘Scotty’ McGarry photographed in Stonefield Public Park, Blantyre around 1950 or so. You can see how popular the park was then, the former boating pond clearly visible. The young trees only a couple of decades old and all at a […]
In April 1927, Cambuslang Parish Council received word that the County Council of Lanarkshire would bear the cost of erecting a new bridge over the River Calder, a tributary of the Clyde, at the location of Caldervale. For some time, the nearby residents had asked for the building of a bridge, as workers and […]
Pictured here in 1946 is Blantyreferme Colliery. Former Blantyreferme colliery was based not far from Newton but within Blantyre Parish and was owned by Ayrshire Company, A.G Moore & Co, (coalmasters). This scene is captured from the Clyde Bridges looking back over westwards to Blantyreferme colliery with the brickworks on the far right. The bings […]
I’ve compiled a list of all the house numbers and families that lived at Fin Me Oot (Caldervale) during 1930. Many of the family heads were miners, for the houses were tied to AG Moore & Co Ltd (coalmasters) who owned nearby Blantyreferme Colliery and Brickworks. The homes were known as Caldervale Terrace and each […]
This is a lovely photo I saw recently on the Facebook page “FinMeOot friends”. Pictured in the late 1940s is Margaret McNeil on her back steps looking down at the camera, as Francis Reynolds walks by in a smart suit. Fin Me Oot or Caldervale was home to many miners families. The last family to […]
Thanks to Alex of Spittal Terrace who contacted me on 7th November 2014 enclosing a photo saying, “Excellent site Paul ! The video of Finmeoot amazed me. I walked my dog through the fields behind my house years ago. I would sometimes meet a Blantyre man with his 2 dogs. He was an encyclopedia of […]