A last look for now at Greenhall House in High Blantyre. These are the former gardens, which once sat at the side of the grand house. The road in the background is now the Carpark at Greenhall, so this area here would be where the low, black railings and seats currently now, the ground sloping […]
Another look at former Greenhall House. This photo I believe dates back to the 1920s and you can see just how small the surrounding trees are. The house doesn’t yet have the distinctive ivy cladding it in the 1940s. This would today have been at the car park in Greenhall Park, the house on multi […]
Continuing our look at Greenhall Estate and a few more photos this week, which I hope you won’t have seen before. Taken from a 1921 sales brochure in my ownership, these photos have been beautifully colourised to enhance and show what the estate once looked like. This lovely woodland scene may be slightly familiar, though […]
James Brown recently shared this fantastic photo of Greenhall House with Blantyre Project. This was taken int he 1960’s just before the house was demolished, already at the time of this photo, a “maintenance” issue for them. I can’t help but feel the injustice in such a beautiful house being demolished and thinking now what […]
Alister Williams recently messaged me with this fascinating information. He told me, “I am the author of REES, VC – the first of the original ‘Few’, being the biography of Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees, VC, OBE. MC, AFC (1884–1955). Rees is the world’s first official fighter pilot, serving with the first official fighter […]
Pictured here in 1967, just a few weeks before its demolition is Greenhall House, High Blantyre, which once stood on what is now the carpark in Greenhall Park. I’ve previously told the history of Greenhall House, but left the demolition date vague unable to determine when exactly it was, so I was really pleased […]
Two photos of former Greenhall House, High Blantyre. One you may have seen, the other less likely. These were shared by Marion Turner whose grandfather, Thomas Denholm was the coach driver for the Moore family of Greenhall prior to 1910. As the family left for Australia, they obviously went with fond memories of Greenhall, for […]