These photos were shared by my friend Alex Rochead. Alex was recently walking downstream of the Calder from Milheugh, but on the Cambuslang side of the river, an area he often explored as a boy. This is a steep area across the river from Niaroo and shows what is possibly part of the old coach […]
This photo likely from the 1910s or 1920s has prompted some discussion. It’s marked up “River Calder” but does not look like any location at Milheugh or Bardykes. I think this is the former Ford (water crossing), just south of the Holmbarns location. It was close to Newhousemill Road and Edge Farm at the High […]
In the centuries before Bardykes Road existed, a small medieval path linked a couple of the hamlets within Blantyre. Pattonholm Path linked Loanend Road/Spittal through the Calder Braes at Dysholm field, past the old mill , over the River Calder itself and up into the old Village at Barnhill (at the Hoolets Nest). This medieval […]