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?
Margaret Campbell shared this lovely family photo taken during the early 1940s. Margaret told me, “This is one of Mum & Dad taken from 1 Priory Rd with the old air raid shelter. The photo was taken during the Second World War when they were courting. The roof line of buildings behind were the shops […]
Walking in Greenhall Park in August 2015, I noticed that large areas of the sloping field were covered in little mounds of earth. This is of course due to the burrowing nighttime activity of moles. It reminded me of my grandmother, Mary Duncan (nee Danskin) of Stonefield Crescent. During the 1970’s, my gran, then in […]
During the Summer of 1965 at Crossbasket Castle, the “James Little Training College” was established and became an education centre for various trades and hobbies, operating alongside the day to day business of the Roosevelt Memorial Fund’s work with disadvantaged children. James Little was a former owner of Crossbasket who left his fortune to a […]