Jim Cochrane sent in this photo, saying, “Cutting barley at Malcolmwood early 1990s. The man at Caldergrove has now chopped all these trees down in the Background.” Malcolmwood Farm actually sits slightly outwith Blantyre Parish on the Cambuslang side of the Rotten Calder river.
Not to be confused with the large grand house at Greenhall Estate, there was also a Greenhall Farmhouse located near the boundary with Crossbasket Estate. Pictured here in 2004 its its final months by Nick Rice, Greenhall Farmhouse. The earliest record I can find of Greenhall Farm House is on the 1747 map, where the […]
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 […]
Another noble visitor to Blantyre was Mary (Queen of Scots). The Annals of Blantyre book 1885 commented, “The old road along which Queen Mary passed on her way from Hamilton Palace to Cathcart Castle, on the day previous to the battle of Langside, intersects the property, and there is a beautiful spring of water in […]