This next painting is by Robert Lille (1867 -1949) and is displayed at the Lillie Art Gallery. It shows a scene in the Calder, Blantyre, which I believe to be Milheugh Falls. I find it difficult to fit the topography and bend in the river into any other area of the calder. The picture is […]
JJ Young, one of the readers of this page watched the cine films I put up in Summer and enjoyed particularly the ones with children playing at the falls. It brought back memories and coincided with a more recent family event. For, JJ’s own sons recently recreated that scene by jumping into the Milheugh Falls […]
A beautiful cine film, now converted by myself over to electronic format. This is Sanny McVicar’s film showing lots of playing in the late 1960’s at Milheugh Falls, Blantyre. I’ve added some music and of course given Sanny back his cine films with the converted film now on DVD for him. Shared here with […]
From 1968, this photo was shared here by Helen Williams, who now lives in Australia. Pictured are Cathy and Mary. This wouldn’t have been that long after the house on the opposite bank was demolished.
A poem by Brian Cummisky. “Up the Cauther” Up the Cauther oan a Summer’s day, Cummiskey’s and Whelan’s came o’or tae play; Up for a Dook in the manky watter Then listen tae Tam ‘n’ Morag’s patter. The whole of Blantir seemed tae be there Especially during the Glesca Fair. Aunties, Uncles, Cousins all, […]
Gordon Cook emailed me this photo taken in the 1950’s. Photographed from the Southern side of the River Calder, are the very beautiful Milheugh Falls. A mystery woman is out walking her dog in this Summer scene. The tree in the foreground isn’t there anymore, long since fallen in due to erosion. Indeed, erosion features […]
In early February 2015, Blantyre man Jim Brown made an interesting discovery,whilst out taking pictures at Milheugh, near the River Calder. Posting it online prompted the interest of several people, myself included and so on 19th February 2015 (despite me suffering some eye problems), Jim Brown, Joey Campbell, Alex Rochead and myself set off to […]