Owing to the great number of socks needed for soldiers at the front, local Blantyre women came up with a great idea in 1917, to help gather in as many socks as possible. Mrs Moore of Greenhall House and her friend Mrs Bannatyne of Milheugh House offered a prize each month to members of High […]
‘Lady Park‘ was the former name of upper fields belonging to Greenhall Estate adjacent to Greenhall Farm. In May 1917, Alexander Marshall Junior (14) of School Lane was caught deliberately setting fire to 8 yards of hedge at Lady Park. He pled guilty in court. He was caught red handed by an approaching police officer who […]
A promise was fulfilled this week with a small memorial to a departed friend in a woodland place once held so fondly. In 2017, Stan Paul met up one evening at my home to share his Greenhall photos. It was a nostalgic evening in front of the fire for Stan and one where I learned a […]
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 […]