No soon as I’d posted the other day about the Court being compassionate and lenient about a child’s theft of pears, I find in the same week, the absolute opposite of an overly harsh incident in the courtroom. In August 1895, Margaret Prentice, a wee girl living with her family at Cross Row, near Blantyre […]
I’ve been holding off posting this particular picture for a while, as I just don’t have much information about it. However, I do know there is a Blantyre connection. I thought I’d put it up online, rather than it sitting in a file in the hope somebody recognises her. It’s such a lovely, clear photo […]
Charlie Jipson shared this photo with me recently adding, “In the picture of my Granny’s back garden you can see the High Blantyre pit. On the left is my granny Bessie Ingram and on the right is Mrs Murdoch who had the little shop across the road from Nursery Place.” The picture was taken in […]
Hope you’re all enjoying this week’s look at 1950’s and 60’s cine films. There’s a few more to come over the next few days. Today, its a look back at a Blantyre garden in the 1960s. Sanny McVicars family sitting out in the sunshine. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others […]
I took this photo of my front garden at Croftfoot on 6th May 2018. Seeing some good weather return, I used the opportunity to sort out the little derelict front garden, tidying it all up, planting some colour for the summer and finally making it look nice. I’ll be writing about Croftfoot in detail […]
Here’s a fantastic photo of the Greenhouse at Calderglen House, just off Blantyre Ferme Road. Clearly when this photo was taken in 1975, it was still being used and despite its age, looked to be in very good condition, even with some apparent glass repairs. The Victorian greenhouse sat on the edge of the terraced […]
Thank you to Marian Maguire who took time to share these lovely photos. Marian told me, “Here are my Blantyre hydrangeas, but your mum always had the best! I used to get tips of her about pruning etc.” Anybody else grow colourful Hydrangeas in their Blantyre gardens?