I’ve been very quick at retelling stories of drownings at the River Clyde. Sadly, this has happened too many times that I could mention. However, as much as those tragic people need to be remembered, what about the heroic tales of rescues and where the outcome was positive. The tales of Blantyre’s heroes over […]
25th February 1964 Minutes of the Fifth District Council were considering by that time, opening up Greenhall Estate as a park for the public. It says, “As considerable progress was being made to the development of Greenhall Estate which is to open to the public, the chairman suggested that consideration may now be given to […]
Pictured here in 1994 by Robert Stewart is a former walled garden at Caldergrove. Just over the River Calder, on the opposite side behind Bardykes, is a sharp bend in the river, and the ruins of a tall, brick wall still exists. The wall runs entirely around a flat, level area which looks like it […]
George Park recently contacted me with this wonderful family photo. Speaking of the pictured Big Linn, at Calderwood Glen, his photo dates from the late 1950’s. We regularly went for family picnics up the calder. This old picture shows the falls running at a mere trickle compared with other photographs. Summers in the 50’s were generally […]
George Park of Arbroath emailed over this great family photo, taken in 1957 at the Pech Brae. Ever so smartly dressed is his brother Robert, late sister Shirley, mother May and George himself on the right. George told me, “Here is the Peth Brae as I remember it as a child in 1957. In those days […]
In January 2015, George Park from Arbroath emailed me his family tree, showing his line coming together from the Forrests of “The Deans” Cambuslang and the Mains at Broompark Road. He had carefully mapped out his ancestry adding notes. I see a lot of names connected to other Blantyre’s farms, so thought I would post […]
You may have seen this postcard before, and I’m not in the habit of repeating content on this site, but if you look closely, the postcard has been remastered and is probably the best quality found online. The work is the effort of George Park, who visited my home with his mother and aunt in […]