How fantastic to see all the conifers now removed from the Dixon’s Memorial Obelisk in High Blantyre Cemetery AND new entrance, grass, chips and cordoned off area re-installed as it once was! The memorial now having a commanding view over to the common ground (the green space at the back right) where many of those […]
Eleanor Clark messaged me in February on the request page at Blantyre Project website saying, “Hi. My Granny Catherine Paterson lived in 16 Cemetery Road, High Blantyre along with my dad Robert, brothers John, Gavin, and Wallace and my aunt Christine. The building was still standing the day she was buried. She was married to […]
This transcribed document notifies of the right to sell burial plots to people in Blantyre during the 19th Century and what those fees were. The poster was shared to me from Blantyre Heritage Chairman, Gordon Cook along with a plan of the Cemetery at High Blantyre. Parish of Blantyre – Notice is hereby given that […]
This photo is extracted from a beautifully illustrated promotional book from 1904, by Gilmours of Glasgow Road. Pictured here (and I’ve zoomed in), is the High Blantyre Cemetery. The cemetery had opened just 29 years earlier in 1875 and by this time is looking quite established. However, what struck me immediately is the absolute care […]
A rather sad story for you now. In July 2014, Blantyre man Robert Stewart emailed me a list of people who were buried in unmarked graves in High Blantyre Cemetery. In all cases, no names were known. Robert, being knowledgeable in Blantyre’s Cemeteries told me that between 1875 and 1914, a total of eleven unknown […]