This remarkable photo is unseen on the Internet until now. This is the front of Greenhall House, High Blantyre around 1905. The former grand home is pictured along with Thomas Denholm, the coach driver. The man up front is Colonel J Wardrop Moore, owner of Greenhall, his family behind in the carriage. When Marion […]
Marion Turner in Australia sent me these photos. She told me, “I have been following your page on FaceBook for some time and also your website as my late Mother Marion Denholm was born in High Blantyre in 1908. Her birth certificate names Greenhall Lodge as her birthplace. Her father Thomas Denholm was coachman to […]
Thanks to Gordon Cook, for sending me this information relating to a legal dispute in the 1870’s around the sinking of the Lady Nancy Mine. The article refers to a farmer, named George Barclay, who had leased the Farm of Greenhall from John Wardrop Moore. The farmlands were fully 66 acres. Without any consultation or […]
Picturesquely situated and beautifully laid out, were the grounds of Milheugh House, High Blantyre admirably suited for the Summer garden fete held on Saturday 28th August 1915. With funds raised on behalf of Blantyre Cottage Hospital, this fete was to lift spirits as the people of Blantyre endured a further year of the first World […]
Perhaps one of the most beautiful areas of Blantyre was, (and still is) Greenhall. Most people know this Western area as the modern extensive park situated between Stoneymeadow Road and the River Calder, but at one time this was a grand house and estate of considerable standing. Greenhall House was most beautifully situated in about […]
This 1747 map of High Blantyre including Greenhall is probably the oldest map i have of Blantyre and shows Greenhall spelling as “Greinhall”, the same as it was in valuation records of the time. Several sources indicate that Greenhall house was built around 1760, but this map (which shows man made structures in red) clearly […]
This author of this account is lost in time now, but was likely written by a Victorian tourist in the mid 1880s. Such accounts of our town and it’s beauty need to be preserved in time, along with this wonderful old photo. “The line between Glasgow and Blantyre, a distance of some seven miles, passes […]