Whilst out walking in July this year with my daughter, I couldn’t help noticing how neglected Greenhall was (again!). This park seems to go through real peaks and troughs of being kept and unkept. This time however, it looked a real bit of a state, enough for me to “make the call” to South Lanarkshire […]
Limepits – During the 1870’s coal mining was a fledgling and growing business in Blantyre. Exploratory work to determine the new coal seams often uncovered other interesting minerals that could be commercially mined. This included iron and lime. Dotted all over the High Blantyre area of Crossbasket, Basket, Calderwood and Auchentibber are small crater […]
The Hamilton Advertiser on Friday 12th May 1967 ran the article (which did contain a couple of minor errors), “Greenhall House to be demolished – GREENHALL House, which has stood in 300 acres of ground at High Blantyre for over 200 years, is to be demolished. The owners, the Eighth District Council have no immediate […]
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 […]
Elaine Kerr was out walking in Greenhall in recent weeks and noticed some carvings on a tree on the former Estate, which is now a public park in High Blantyre. She kindly shared her photo here. However, whats curious is that the carvings were made when the estate was still private in 1946 (which seems […]
Mr. J. Wardrobe Moore was the business owner of the former Greenhall Brickworks, High Blantyre. According to Neil Gordon’s 2004 book a passage he found was lifted directly out of Strother’s 1912 Directory, “Access to the brickworks was by a track leading from the General’s Brig (Bridge) in Stoneymeadow up the hill, over where the current […]
Thoughts turn towards Springtime, trees and fields turning green again. I took these photos of Greenhall, High Blantyre in Springtime 2015, which serve as a good record of the beauty of this former pitch n putt field, now up for sale by the council. I hope whoever buys this land, (either for commercial or community use) […]