Moving on to some weddings from 1980. (Was that really 39 years ago?!) Do you recognise any of the couples. We hope they have had long and happy marriages. All into the archives on Blantyre Project. As always, if any person featured in these photos wishes them to be removed from the archive, please just […]
Some more weddings from late in 1978 of various Blantyre folk. Do you know these people? First couple is a Blantyre couple who were married in 1978 in St Andrew’s Church. Miss Anne Sim of Devondale Avenue married John Nicholas of Atholl Court. Photographs were taken by Hughes Photography. The next couple are also both […]
Matt Lindsay, who lives in the USA, emailed me in May to say, “Hello, my name is Matt Lindsay, I have a GG…Grandmother Jean Gilfillan, where the 1841 census may shows her at “Blantyre Works Cross Row”. Of course, details kind of sketchy, but I see on one of your old maps a possible Lindsay […]
Alexander Lindsay was known to be a wicked man and inherited the estates of Mains and Crossbasket. Power hungry and ruthless, he was more commonly known locally as Alexander of Dunrod to distinguish him from previous generations of the same name who had better character. Artwork by Andy Lee. The Lindsay family dwelt at Mains […]
I’ve recently read so many incorrect histories and details about Calderglen House, that I thought I would write a brief history, correcting things (as I see it). Calderbank – Lyndsay / Munro / Struthers era To explore the history of Calderglen House, we must understand the original name, Calderbank. The origins of Calderbank House can […]
Pictured here drawn in 1982 by A Lindsay, is a sketch of 1950’s High Blantyre Railway. The sketch incorporates the bridge in the foreground at Craigmuir Road and the railway heading round to the bridge at Sydes Brae. It may be that the artist felt the need to record this memory, for during those early […]
Pictured here by Jim Brown in 2008, is the Lindsay Brae or Lindsay Hill as known locally, leading up from Milheugh Bridge up towards Malcolmwood Farm. I’ve been trying to find out why it was called Lindsay Brae. What person was it named after? When? The history has been lost i believe, so i’d like […]