A couple of photos I took back in September 2015, which I thought I’d share with you. This was back to a crazy time looking for the elusive Blantyre tunnel under the Clyde. I didn’t find the tunnel despite a few visits and some very hard digging in the alleged location, but I did stop […]
The Ragman’s Roll was also known officially as ‘Baiamund de Vicci’. He was a religious man of Italian descent and known in Scotland simply as Bagimund. In the 13th Century, whilst on errands for the Pope, he was in Scotland at each religious outlet to collect taxes to fund the Crusades. Blantyre Priory was on […]
A good resolution image from 1904, showing Bothwell Castle. Pictured from Blantyre side of the river. The photo was scanned and shared here by Gordon Cook.
Pictured here in 1870, is the River Clyde with Blantyre on the left and looking across to Bothwell Castle on the right. Whilst a lovely early photograph in itself, it is the little river boat and crossing I found more interesting. I’ve seen a few early photos of a river boat in this location. On […]
Just across the River Clyde from Blantyre Priory stands Bothwell Castle, but many people may be surprised to know that immediately beside the castle, stood a massive house, large enough in itself to have been called a castle in its own right. It is sufficiently close to Blantyre’s boundary, for me to tell it’s story […]
In early June, Blantyre men Alex Rochead, Gordon Cook and I took a walk down to Priory, to visit the site of the old Priory Pit baths. The miner’s bathhouse dates from 1932 and are located almost immediately beside the railway, across from the Coatshill scheme, on the Priory playing fields side. Here are the […]
At the end of May 2015, I was contacted by Katarzyna Grzegorczyk of Blantyre, who sent me some photos of a mysterious little building hidden in the woods beyond the Priory Playing fields. Katarzyna asked what the building was. Actually what she had discovered, was a largely forgotten or unknown building. Nature had reclaimed it, […]