Blantyre Project reader Ursula sent me a message saying, “My nan was Helen McCutchon born at, I believe at 6 Netherfield Place in 1915- d.o.b 31.12.15. It was quite a large family. I think her dad was called Hugh. I managed to look at some of her brothers and sisters history, but really when I […]
Two brothers-in-law named Andrew Clyde, miner, Netherfield Place, Blantyre, and Richard Murphy, miner, Glasgow Road, Blantyre, appeared before the Justices at Hamilton on Saturday 3rd March 1923, on charge of fighting. The Fiscal explained that the attention of the nearby police at Victoria Street had been drawn to a back field of Netherfield Place, where […]
A street no longer in Blantyre. Netherfield Place. I’ve marked up this 1897 map showing 4 buildings that formed “Netherfield Place”. This was a street that is now part of Calder Street. The four green dots represent the extent of the houses on Netherfield Street. Four, two story tenement buildings dating from the early 1890’s, […]