A couple of weeks ago, Blantyre Project reader, Andy Gardner was visiting the Harwich Redoubt which is a Napoleonic era fort in Essex, England (pictured). I’m told is was still in use during WWII. So you can imagine his surprise when touring the cells, when inside one, he noticed some preserved prisoner graffiti from 1940 […]
Tag: graffiti
Barnhill Boys & Graffiti 1920’s
I’ve been zooming in on old photos again to see what I’d previously missed. Like these two wee boys walking past a house in Barnhill during the 1920’s, or immediately in front of them, on the top of the wall at the Pech Brae, seeing SO much graffiti, which surprised me. Initials and dates painted […]
Livingstone Walkway Graffiti
Alison Walker Hill shared this photo commenting, “Down by the Clyde on the new section of path below the David Livingstone centre, a freshly fallen tree has taken all the years of debris off the sandstone wall and revealed this inscription…..I wonder who these people were?” Interesting graffiti, but unfortunately I can’t tie it […]
Pit Baths Artwork
1905 Graffiti at Greenhall Entrance
A few photographs shared with me from Alex Bowie in Strathaven, were taken way back between 1905 – 1915. This one is of the entrance to Greenhall Estate, on the Turnpike road, at the top of the hill leaving Blantyre. Incredibly, I can zoom in on these photographs to see incredible detail. The stone pillars […]