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 […]
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 […]
In 1773, a map of the shire of Lanark was produced, taken from an actual survey and laid down from a scale of an inch to a mile / by Charles Ross (b1722-d1806) The Blantyre portion is rather interesting with some well known names, but still very rural and without many of the roads we’re […]
I was recently thrilled when my good friend and fellow history colleague Gordon Cook gave me a nice gift! I’m now the proud owner of a large map of the underground coal workings of High Blantyre, marked up to show where each victim of the 1877 Pit disaster died. As well as this to accompany […]
This map is of High Blantyre, from the year I was born, 1971. I cant speak from experience about this, so I’m relying on what I’ve heard about this area and of course feel free to comment as always. The area focuses on Main Street and the top of Hunthill Road at Kirkton Cross. […]
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. […]
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 […]