This photo features Shuttle Row around the year 1900. Pictured is the entrance to the Shuttle Row building, the circular tower to the left. Young children gather around the door as a mindful mother looks on, in the middle of her washing. The washhouse was out the picture to the left, a circular building […]
From it’s humble beginning’s much of the sewage generated by Blantyre’s hamlets ended up directly in the Parkburn, Leeburn, the Clyde or the Calder. During the 1600 and 1700’s, there were no proper drains within the town, with people relying on kerbside drains and small culverts that at least tried to hide waste water and […]