These photos were taken around 1908 at Barnhill Quoiting Green. This small sports field was located in what is now the beer garden of the Hoolets. In later years it looks likely to have moved from this small waste ground pictured, to behind the wall, in a larger more defined Quoiting green adjacent to Broompark […]
I was determined in January to visit Auchentibber Quoiting Green, or at least visit it anytime in Winter. Every time I’ve previously been there has been in Summer and the site is so overgrown with nothing much to see. January afforded the perfect opportunity to see what stones and features remain, without the hassle and […]
Let me take you to 1905. To Broompark Road. Pictured here from the junction of Main Street is a rural scene looking to the North West down Broompark Road. Let’s first get our bearings in a modern context, as the buildings on the right and the wall is now gone. The layout of the road […]
Pictured here in a previously unpublished photo, taken in the 1910s is Broompark Quoiting Green. This small sports field was located near the junction of Broompark Road and High Blantyre’s Main Street, in what is now Ally Bally Bees Nursery. Photographer David Ritchie lived nearby at the time and it is thanks to his wonderful […]
The Quoiting Green was situated behind the old War Memorial at Auchentibber. The local Miners in the late 1890’s spent some time working stone and building ornamental gardens modelled on Italian Designs. The gardens turned out to be very impressive and featured as a beautiful backdrop to the sporting ground itself. The gardens were terraced, […]