Here’s a great link to the Coal Authority website and in particular their interactive online map. It shows all the immediate mine and colliery entry points, itself fascinating due to the number of them within the immediate Blantyre area. However, it was the overlay of the “Development High Risk Areas”, i.e areas not to be […]
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Map on the Wall
I’ve been focusing on 1909 and 1910 in recent weeks and found an interesting little snippet. A newspaper report in the’ Hamilton Herald and Lanarkshire Weekly‘ on Wednesday 24th March 1909 told of a particular map which still at that time hung on the wall of the Village Hall, in Blantyre. The decorative map was […]
1773 How Blantyre Looked
1877 Disaster Documents
1971 High Blantyre Map
Oval Pool at Craigneith, Blantyre in 1904
Pictured here in 1904 is the Oval Pool (fountain not in operation) at Calderwood Glen. The pool was on the Blantyre side of the gorge and fed from the River Calder itself via a sluice gate and channel. The attached map puts the pool into context, showing it not far from Auchentibber and Calderside Farms. […]
1953 Livingstone Centre Map
A great little reference map of David Livingstone Centre, that perhaps will interest people of a certain generation. Dating from 1953, this map pinpoints and highlights the places of interest around the centre and its grounds. For example, the playthings, the rose garden, the world fountain. It shows just how much the centre grounds have […]