The “Old Man’s Rest” was a timber and glass enclosed shelter dating from post WW2 (check maps) situated near the former entrance of Stonefield Public Park. It stood at the main footpath near the arch, which ran down to the Station Road entrance. It was directly behind the back gardens of numbers 56 and 58 […]
A beautiful painting now made available by South Lanarkshire Museums. The scene is Barnhill in 1924 and the artist is none other than Blantyre’s late historian Neil Gordon. Neil painted the scene in oils in 1973 from a photograph of the same 1924 scene. He donated the painting to Lanarkshire Museum as part of their […]
This photo was given to me in the mid 1990’s by the late historian Neil Gordon. (Neil used to live 3 doors up from my parents and knew of my growing interest in local history). Actually, its a newspaper photo and wasn’t scanned in particularly high resolution. The scribble I made on that day, told […]