Need your help. I have very little notes on these buildings, just off the red ash park, bordering the Calder through Hunthill Lane. I’ve always believed them to be pigeon coops, though not sure if they still are or even were! Anybody able to comment? Looking into this subject, by 1978, a growing problem of […]
By 1978, a growing problem of pigeon fanciers*, i.e keeping live birds in bird lofts in gardens was being discussed by the Council. The popular past-time was especially popular in Blantyre with some homes in Logan Street, Cemetery Road, Auchinraith Road and Hunthill Road noted as having these bird lofts. * People who breed […]