Elizabeth Weaver shared this beautiful photo, a first time certainly I’ve ever seen the former Paddling Pool at High Blantyre Park. (Kirkton Park). Located near the entrance to Broompark Avenue, the paddling pool I believe was built in the 1940s, though this photo dates around 1950. The houses at Broompark Avenue are in the background. […]
How iconic this photo is. From 2000, it’s the end of the blue Oval pool not far from the Station Road entrance to Stonefield Public Park. Some happy memories in warm summers playing in that water as a child. Now all gone. What’s your memories of this pool and fountain? Photo: Veverka collection Featuring Blantyre Project […]
One of the largest residential homes in Blantyre is up for sale at £75,000 less than the Summer 2016 asking price. “Campsie View” in Auchentibber, High Blantyre is one whole lotta house! And then some. At current offers over £575,000, Campsie View was designed and built by the current owners for their own personal use […]
Campsie View – On 15th April 2016, a large detached house in Auchentibber came up for sale for £650,000. Situated on the former site of Broomhouse Farm, and accessed from Parkneuk Road, the estate agent gives a good description, of what is one of Blantyre’s modern largest houses. The ground level comprises of the […]
Swimming Pools –Aside from the Public pool at Blantyre Sports Centre and the canine hydrotherapy pool at Allers Farm, Blantyre has a few other swimming pools. Ponds and water features are excluded from this topic. These however are non-business, private residential pools that remain largely unknown to most people and are for the sole […]
On the 20th March 1936, a newspaper report suggested the Livingstone Pageant was likely to be dropped due to a lack of Public Interest. A suggestion was made that it might be advisable to discontinue the ‘Livingstone pageant Blantyre for a year’ is made in the annual report of the Scottish National Memorial to David […]
Richard Rankin took these three photos in early October 2014. Shared here, they feature an interesting inscription on the side of a rock, adjacent to the River Calder. It says “Wee Yanni Pool”. The exact location is on the left river bank at Crossbasket. Richard said, “I first noticed this years ago up trouting, at […]