Blantyre Project reader Lewis MacDonald messaged me recently saying, “Hey paul, i was wondering if you would happen to know anything about these bottles that i found at the lime kiln in the woodland near the war memorial at sydes brae?” Lewis provided a picture and it’s easy to see the scale. The little bottle […]
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Greenhall Lime Pits
Pictured here by Jim Brown is a Lime Pit at Greenhall. Sometimes mistaken for bomb craters, these pits date back to the 18th and were essentially small mines to extract lime. The pits were often known as Bell pits, due to the shape of an inverted bell. In times of heavy rainfall, they were prone […]

