Every month, I like to add to my Blantyre collection, either through donations of interesting artefacts or memorabilia or buying interesting things with a Blantyre connection using a (very) small budget.This month I bought this little book and for the first time it was a purchase, not entirely for the content of the book. The […]
A photo from around 110 years ago. Behind Jura Drive, at the end of what is now Kirkwall Avenue once stood Cochrane’s Chapel. In what is now woodlands, there was a little memorial graveyard beside the chapel, this stone remembering Pelham Maitland Cochrane. Sheep are in the Calderglen fields where Jura Drive is now. Above […]
A building i’m often asked about is the small stone ruin in the woods behind modern day Kirkwall Avenue and Jura Drive. It’s been said that this was connected to the Priory and was once a chapel. That’s only half true, i’m afraid and today this article aims to provide some information and history. The […]