Elaine Kerr was out walking in Greenhall in recent weeks and noticed some carvings on a tree on the former Estate, which is now a public park in High Blantyre. She kindly shared her photo here. However, whats curious is that the carvings were made when the estate was still private in 1946 (which seems […]
Well, I should be allowed after all to include my own recent history into the Blantyre Project! Here, on 8th September 2006 I married Paula Veverka. It truly was the happiest day of my life (with exception only when Annalily was born), even more so for having both my parents still there with us in […]
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 […]