A Greenhall Brick! To be more precise, this is a brick from J Wardrop Moore’s Greenhall Brickworks at High Blantyre, a former brickworks, once located just off Craigmuir Road. The brickworks is known to have existed from at least as early as 1862, as its known Blantyre Gas Works on Stonefield Road used these bricks […]
On Sunday 24th February this year (2019), myself and some fellow colleagues from Friends of the Calder headed off to Greenhall armed with shovels and spades. The aim was to find a set of steps in the former estate which the late Stan Paul, who once lived there, remembered as a child. We knew roughly […]
Tomorrow, Sunday 24 February 2019 will be a day when I fulfil a promise to an old friend, sadly departed. In 2017, fellow Friends of the Calder colleague Stan Paul met up one evening at my home to share his Greenhall photos. It was a nostalgic evening for Stan and one where I learned a […]
John Wardrop Moore Junior owned Greenhall House and Estate from around 1885, by inheriting it from the late doctor, his father of the same name. (Wardrop Moore Senior has a commemorative arch in built into the old Kirkyard in High Blantyre). Young John Wardrop Moore (Jnr) joined the local militia volunteers in 1883 at the […]
An hunting accident took place at Greenhall, Blantyre around New Year 1897. William Welton, the Coachman to Mr Wardrop Moore of Greenhall was out shooting rabbits in the Greenhall Estate Glen, beside the river. Mr Welton was standing near a local farmer who had a ‘hammerless gun’. The farmer and Mr Welton formed two […]
I took this photo on 19th September 2018 during a heavy rain-shower. Coming down the road from Greenhall, i noticed this spectacular double rainbow over Shott. This is an area going through remarkable transformation in 2018. New houses at Greenhall Village surround the walled garden of Shott House, which has again gone up for sale, […]
In May 1967, Utility company ‘South of Scotland Electricity Board’ requested permission to erect a line of pylons through the outskirts of High Blantyre and over the Greenhall Estate into the Calder. The suggestion caused a lot of discussion amongst the 8th District Council as it was felt this was a high amenity area […]
I recently wrote about the discovery of the Greenhall Rifle Range, which opened in 1867 and confirmed it was on the Greenhall Estate on a flat piece of land. This got me thinking as to where it may have been. I now have a good contender for the location. I have ruled out the range […]