1790 – The East Kilbride to Hamilton Turnpike Road (later to become known as Stoneymeadow Road) was built., completed in 1791. This important road connected several local villages and would have been a main road of its time. General Thomas Peter (then only a Captain) was involved with the company who built the road. […]
A photo from Alex Rochead, dating from 2004/2005, when the grounds of Crossbasket were fairly neglected. Pictured from the boundary of the Crossbasket Castle grounds is “The General’s Bridge”. In recent months I’ve been forced to change my opinion about whom this was built for. Commonly thought to be Liuet General Peter, I am now swayed […]
Thank you to Christina Forrest for sending in her father’s photo of the General’s Bridge, Stoneymeadow Road. A horse and cart is pictured crossing over the Bridge and the scene looks similar to today. The back of the photo is dated 1924. Christina told me, “I’m not sure how my father ended up with this […]
The General’s Bridge (of General’s Brig) is situated just outside High Blantyre , beyond Greenhall, on the Stoneymeadow Road, before the entrance to Crossbasket House. It spans over the Rotten Calder river. It is unknown when the current bridge was built, but there is evidence it replaced an earlier bridge. The current bridge (pictured in […]
In 1948 William Park of Blantyre recorded his ghostly experience at ‘The Lady Nancy’, (the upper South Western slopes of Blantyre). Recorded in the Gazette on 17th July 1948, the ghostly tale is narrated here in his own words and as published. A good many years ago, aye more than I care to remember, a […]