It may come as a surprise to many people that beside the High Blantyre Cemetery, just off Victoria Street was once a Hospital for Infectious Diseases. That’s a post for another day, but instead here I want to focus on the road into that hospital. The road was called the Hospital Road and led into […]
One last photo from Caldergrove House, this time a plaque which was on the north facade. Caldergrove House was a large villa in its own grounds by the Rotten Calder River, built c.1830. In 1875 a mansard roof and Ionic-style porch were added to give the house a more imposing façade. The interior was also […]
With WW1 “hotting” up in 1916 and an influx of casualties, many properties in Britain became hospitals. In Blantyre, one particular Mansion House became a Hospital. On Saturday 9th October 16, Archibald Russell Limited, the well known firm of coal owners with large interests both in Lanarkshire and the Bannockburn district of Stirlingshire, announced that […]
On 27th November 1918, just over 2 weeks after the fighting in Europe ended, sad news reached High Blantyre that another soldier had died. Private Alexander Richardson, Royal Artillery, the youngest son of James Richardson, died in a hospital in France from pneumonia. The 40 year old soldier from Hunthill Road left behind a widow […]
The last of Margaret Stewart’s interesting photos from her family album. Kindly shared here from 1918, with a likely Blantyre interest is a nurse and who appears to be a decorated French soldier. The other photo, also with people unidentified shows a dining room set up, perhaps in a French hospital for medical staff. This […]
What an amazing photo this is! During WW1, Caldergrove House was turned into a hospital for recovering, wounded soldiers. Sitting near the front door, not too far from Priory Bridge, the medical staff pose for a photo alongside the soldiers, all smartly dressed. There is almost one nurse or doctor for each of the […]
Hopefully this is a brand new photo for you all! Pictured in World War One, a hundred years ago are the nurses and doctors , the medical staff of Caldergrove House, which at that time had given itself over to becoming an Auxiliary hospital on the outskirts of Blantyre. As well as being a fantastic […]