This picture by Jean Claude Nattes was sketched in 1799 and has a reference to the Calder. At the bottom right it says “Mill on the Calder, Below Millheugh“. The below reference being downstream from Milheugh. Given that another sketch shows Bardykes Black Mill at Priory Bridge, this different mill pictured appears on maps of […]
Jenny Hutton wrote to me a while back saying, “Hi Paul. I am researching my ancestors from Millheugh Mill. I was very interested in hearing about Pathfoot. My ancestors were living in Pathfoot in 1790 probably before this but this was where their first child was born. They were John and Margaret Connel. John is […]
Roberts Land On the western side of Herbertson Street, aside from the manse and Co-op buildings (explored shortly), the only other buildings were at Roberts Land. Contrary to what you may have read by others, there were no tenements located in Herbertson Street near its junction with Auchinraith Road. The Roberts family came […]
“The House by the Mill in the Meadow” by James Cornfield (2004) Down Pech Brae by Calder’s stream, in autumn is a place so green, orange, gold and yellow too, all enhanced by old Millheugh, the place that Blantyre people know, as the House by the Mill in the Meadow to describe the scene […]
The Blantyre Mills lay derelict and empty in 1903. A building, which by then was 118 years old had served its time, and the people of Blantyre well. Through its doors thousands of people, often over many generations in same families and some as young as 10 years old, had worked at the equipment. […]
Nigel Campbell contacted me from Canada in April 2016, writing, “Hello from Canada. I have seen your very helpful family searching for early Blantyre residents. My family ( through the Campbell name) traces back to the Blantyre Mill. Through my research we go back to Shuttle Row (Alexander Campbell… 1816). Alexander had a number of […]
I’ve been researching The Mill at Crossbasket. It was quite unique in the early part of the 20th Century in that it was still working, by comparison to all other Blantyre mills that had ceased operating at that time. Even as late as the 1930’s the mill operated, though not at that time as a meal mill. […]