Blantyre Ferme Brickworks was one of the more modern brickworks in Blantyre. Not built until the 1920’s the brickie was built immediately adjacent to the Blantyrefereme Colliery, just before the railway tunnel as you headed over the Blantyrefereme road to Uddingston. An access road led off from the right, which today is fenced over. The […]
Blantyre Project has written a couple of times about the makeshift, wooden resting bench at Caldervale, (at Fin Me Oot). The last article we wrote about the bench was accompanied with photos from around 10 years ago. However, the seat itself has changed over the years and so has the sign. I recently posted the […]
Isla Arendell (nee McInally) wrote to me with the following message, “Further to your post about ‘Fin me Oot’, I thought you might like to hear about our family connection. My parents John and Nan McInally (nee Murphy) emigrated to the States in 1951. My father grew up on Baird’s Rows and my mother in […]
For some time, the lost village of Caldervale (now gone) at Blantyre’s North Western boundary has only been able to be found by the few items remaining there. The odd clothes pole, a small shed or two, but visitors intent on finding out where the location was, are guided helpfully by this little seat. A […]