This photo likely from the 1910s or 1920s has prompted some discussion. It’s marked up “River Calder” but does not look like any location at Milheugh or Bardykes. I think this is the former Ford (water crossing), just south of the Holmbarns location. It was close to Newhousemill Road and Edge Farm at the High […]
A rather rare photo of Milheugh House, photographed from a more uncommon angle, from across the river Calder. This was taken in 1901 when the much respected Bannatyne family owned the property. The house was proposed to be sold to the County Council in 1957, but through re-negotiations wasn’t sold until 2nd May 1958 for the […]
Well done to Jim Brown for managing to photograph a beautiful Otter back in the Calder River in December 2014. At an undisclosed location to the North, this otter was clearly enjoying a Winter swim, in river water much improved in the last few decades. If the return of these amazing wild animals are a […]