A somewhat curious find was uncovered in an Auchentibber Quarry in mid August 1907. At Hartfield, Auchentibber the workforce of builder William Kerr were working in the leased quarry. They were about 35 down lifting stone out and up to ground level when the strange affair took place. Upon lifting a large boulder out, they […]
Broomhouse Farm – According to Parish Records of 1859, Broomhouse was then just a long thatched cottage, lived in at either end, but with the middle portion of the roof collapsed and in ruin. Mr John Torrance, a solicitor from Hamilton owned the house and surrounding lands and indeed the nearby quarry. He, or his […]
Hugh B Kerr & Son Ltd were Blantyre based building and civil engineering contractors in the mid 20th Century. In 1950, they had subsidiary companies Kerrlaw Quarry Ltd (suppliers of freestone and silica sand) on telephone Blantyre 231. Also Kerr Plant Hiring Co Ltd (plant hirers and contractors). Their offices were at Station Road with […]
I’ve often written about historical drownings in the Clyde, so what a surprise it was to see a drowning, this time in Auchentibber, which I would have thought would have been the last place for a Blantyre resident to meet their end. Considerable excitement prevailed in Blantyre on Thursday 17th April 1930, when it became known that a […]
There’s confirmed evidence that iron ore was mined in Auchentibber from the late 1700’s, but it was the mining of limestone that left a permanent indent on the hamlet of Auchentibber, on the south side of Blantyre. From as early as the 1830’s limestone was mined from large holes in the ground, which eventually formed […]