This beautiful house is the former Greenhall Mansion house, once located where now the car park is at Greenhall Park. The front door faces across to the sloping field. This is the 1960s. Those south facing garden seats must have received lots of sunshine and are perfectly placed. The people are known, the photo shared […]
A photo from the 1940s next. This Mrs Jessie Paul at Greenhall. Jessie owned Greenhall House in that wartime decade, her family purchasing the estate from the Wardrop Moore family in 1921. She’s pictured in her garden , not far from where the current carpark is now at Greenhall Park. This was very much a […]
A few years back, a friend of mine gave me some photos of his former home, Greenhall House in High Blantyre. Photos of the house, of the gardens and estate in general. Some dating as far back as a hundred years. So how about this lovely photo of the house in all its glory. This […]
This flat triangular shaped plot of level grass is the site of former Greenhall Lodge in High Blantyre. I took this photograph at end of January 2021 whilst out on a lockdown walk, to show how different the scene is now that the houses are built at Greenhall Village. Taken from the road inside the […]
For as long as I can remember, the sloping upper field at Greenhall Park has had iron railings alongside the road. One painted dark green, the railings have been there from the middle of the 20th Century. Having just been out at the park, the first time in a while, I was surprised to see […]
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 […]
Have you seen the new additions at Greenhall Farm, High Blantyre?! Meet Poppy and Ellie! These beautiful alpacas are now settling into their new home. Remember! When Visiting the Shop or Cafe please don’t feed them. They will keep their distance until they get used to things.