This excellent poem was sent in anonymously to the newspaper by the rather amusing person “AuchenWarlock”, in January 1901. Titled, the Blantyre Ghost. A local poem, you may not have heard before, now 120 years old! I won’t pretend to understand all the “auld language”, but I definitely get the ‘jist’. I’ll add too, this […]
I’m fortunate enough to own a couple of excellent quality prints of Crossbasket Castle. One of these is particularly interesting and in such incredible resolution, that it permits good zooming in on features that may have previously been missed. This 1870 photo shows Crossbasket Castle at the time James Clark, merchant of Glasgow owned it. […]
Clare McKenzie recently wrote to me asking, “Hi Paul, I was curious about the area down the Calder near the waterfall. We called it the witches house as it was in under trees and it was the remains of possibly a small house or shed. The young ones now use it as a drinking area […]
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 […]