On the evening of Sunday 21st May 1893, some excitement took place on the outskirts of Springwell at the Low Blantyre Road (Glasgow Road). At Greenfield, Patrick O Brien, an 8 year old who lived with his father nearby, was playing on the bridge parapet at the side of the road. The bridge was beside […]
Greenfield was a village or hamlet in its own right. The sleepy, rural scene with just a farm owned by the Potter family, denoted in 1859 maps, was short-lived and this whole area would quickly give way to industry with the discovery of coal. As the population expanded in the 1860’s and 1870’s workers […]
Marion Anderson messaged me in September, “Hi Paul, don’t know if you can help me , but my mother Jessie Ewart Beattie ( née Balfour) was born in Burnbank in 1913 I believe, she told us she was ” picked up of the streets” showing symptoms of scarlet fever during an epidemic when she […]
Although slightly over the Blantyre Parish Boundary into Burnbank, here is a photo shared by Jim Cochrane. Pictured is GreenField School, Burnbank. Jim commented, “My Gran Annie Baird Main (Marshall) is in the middle row 5th from the right. taken i think in the later 1920s she was born on 18th Sept 1914.”
This lovely semi-rural scene is Low Blantyre, facing over towards Burnbank in the background. From the turn of last century the photo in available by postcard and dates form 1908. The foundry referenced at the top right was Greenfield Foundry which later became the site of Ireland’s scrap yard. Today, the first Depot Bus Station […]