There is an interesting entry in the Fifth District County Minutes for Recreation and Parks on 25th February 1964 that allows a local footbridge to be dated. “In connection with the development of Greenhall, the Clerk submitted for consideration, a sketch plan together with an offer amounting to £344 from Mssrs Alex Inglis & Co […]
Fly Tipping?? There’s was nothing “fly” about this. Not in some woods, not at the side of the road, not in a lay-by. More like BLATANT tipping. Where? Ladies and gentlemen, some absolute dimwit has tipped it right in the middle of the field at Milheugh!! Not sure i have the energy to keep phoning […]
In early June 2015, I was contacted by George Young, a photographer and ex Blantyre man, known online as “Livvy lad”. George commented, “Really enjoyed looking through your photos Paul. As an ex Blantyre lad there were not many places that I didn’t explore as a boy. Take a look at some photos I have […]
What a lot of character this photo has. Pictured around 1905 are 4 children and possibly their nanny at the gates to the Greenhall Estate. The pillars and wall are still there today at the top of the hill. I noticed when i zoomed in on this photo that the old lady is possibly […]
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 […]
Whilst browsing over a map from 1822, I noticed something peculiar on the Turnpike Road in High Blantyre, which had only been built 32 years previous to that date. The Turnpike created a new road at an elevated position above Greenhall, walled with a 3 foot stone wall, which still exists today at the top […]
Pictured here amongst the mature woodland trees at Greenhall, are the remains of early electrical conductors and cable insulators, amongst the first to run electricity into Greenhall House. Jim Brown’s photo of 2009 shows how the trees themselves were used as the electrical poles, utilising a ready made way of protecting and running in the […]