These family photos were taken by my dad in 1978. Although not very clear, they do show myself and my sister Joanne, in and around Blantyre. At High Blantyre Primary School gates, at Stonefield Crescent (where all the houses absolutely looked the same in the days before coloured roughcast!), and playing at Greenhall Park. I […]
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 […]
There used to be several curling ponds in Blantyre. One at Whistleberry, another near Milheugh, one at Stonefield Public Park, and another near Greenhall to name a few. This photo dates from the early 1910s and shows the Blantyre Curling team, posing for photos, at what i believe to be the curling pond near Greenhall. […]
June Hislop shared this photo which was taken at Greenhall House. A rare photo of the entrance of the building, pictured in the 1920s is her grandfather standing beside a horse named “The Nut”. Previous Greenhall owner Ean Paul once told me, Mr Moore who owned Greenhall House previous to his family, was very fond […]
At a time just 8 months after the Cuban Missile Crisis and just 5 months before President Kennedy was assassinated, Blantyre was attending to its own important matters. Perhaps not with the worldwide implications of the aforementioned, the District council now found themselves with their own dilemma, owning Greenhall Estate and finding out for the […]
25th February 1964 Minutes of the Fifth District Council were considering by that time, opening up Greenhall Estate as a park for the public. It says, “As considerable progress was being made to the development of Greenhall Estate which is to open to the public, the chairman suggested that consideration may now be given to […]
29th October 1963 in the Fifth District County Minutes. A proposal was raised as what was to be done with the redundant and derelict Greenhall House. By then, in ownership of the council a note appeared in the minutes proposing to temporarily lease the House to East Kilbride Town Council, (presumably as there own offices, […]