I’ve previously written about Blantyre squatters living at the former Milheugh House at the Calder, in the mid 1940s. This newspaper article from The Glasgow Herald, from Saturday 24th April 1945, provides some more detail on that story. To put the Blantyre events firmly in a global time context, 2 days later, Adolf Hitler committed […]
This photo is from my own family album. On the back, it says “1929 The Workers at Milheugh”. The only person I recognise is my grandfather John Duncan, (before he married my gran). John is the chap with the tie. By the title, I can only assume these people are the workers at Milheugh Estate, […]
Pictured here is Agnes and Elizabeth Bannatyne of Milheugh Estate, Blantyre. The lady without the necklace is Agnes Bannatyne who was painted in 1860 by the artist John Graham Gilbert. The same artist also painted her sister, Elizabeth, slightly earlier in the 1850’s, pictured here as the lady with the necklace. Both paintings were gifted […]