Despite being Summer, Monday 2nd July 1900 saw a great unexpected rainfall in Blantyre. Between five o clock and half past six, merely for an hour an a half, a deluge never seen before fell upon the district immediately flooding out properties. It didn’t let up for 90 minutes, falling with a force causing raindrops […]
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Blantyre Flooded out
In April 1925, Blantyre saw enormous flooding (as did much of Scotland). It caused SO many problems for businesses and individuals alike. In the area surrounding Blantyre, acres of fields were under water damaging new crops. On the tramway track, the flooding was most serious at Whistleberry Bridge near Springwell and at the other end […]
1960 Waverley Terrace flood
Sandra Doherty sent in this photo which she believes was taken in 1960. She told me, “can you tell me anything about this photo? I think it’s Blantyre” I have to say, it looks like Waverley Terrace in High Blantyre, obviously flooded out, as deep as the counter on that ice cream van. Pavements are […]
2015 Cocksburn from Letterick side
Recent discussions and posts about Cocksburn Culvert (built to permit the flow of Cocksburn under the embankment for Greenhall Railway Viaduct), prompted Blantyre man Alex Rochead to get on his walking shoes and take a visit to the site. Alex told me “He had often walked up the old railway from Blantyre past Mid Lettrick towards […]
Flooding of Burnside Cottages
Tom Campbell recently contacted me from New Zealand to say, “to the bottom right of this map appears to be Burnside Cottages where I lived as a boy from 1958 until they were utterly destroyed by flooding of the Park Burn ten years later. I recall more than one cottage (at least three) occupied in […]
The Priory Flood of 1785
Intrigued by an overlaid note on a Blantyre 1897 map I recently uncovered some conclusive evidence of a great Blantyre flood of the River Clyde. On my 1897 map, there’s a note against the Blantyre Priory (directly opposite Bothwell Castle) saying “Clyde rose to this mark 12th March 1782“. Capturing my curiosity, I wanted to […]