A photo by Thomas Annan, and an old photo at that! Taken in 1870, the subject is obviously the Bothwell Castle and River Clyde. The old negative plates offer great clarity and resolution over towards the ferry crossing on the Blantyre side, a little upstream from the Priory. Gordon Cook once gave me some […]
Well noticed! Whilst stopping at the traffic lights in Hamilton at Peacock Cross, Blantyre Project reader Tracey Lees noticed a plaque saying it was the house of David Livingstone. Tracey asked us to clarify the plaque. This is INDEED NOT the case. Whilst David was born in Shuttle Row and lived not only in Glasgow […]
High up on the fields above Udston (now where the Westcraigs housing estate is) Private Weir of the Mechanical Transport section of the 4th Lanakrshire Battalion trains on a motorcycle in 1942. Mr Weir is on the bike and his trainer looks on. Taken during the middle of WW2, the home guard played an important […]