So who are these two Blantyre boys so smartly dressed and enjoying a day out? The year is 1959 and they’re aboard the ‘Queen Mary 2’, Clyde Steamer on a Lanarkshire Farmers’ Sail. Why, it’s none other than Alex Rochead (left) and Sandy Wilkie! The ship was built on the Clyde in 1933 and carried […]
Shared here by Jim Cochrane, who adds, “This is Alex & Jim Rocheads Grand parents Alexander and Wilimina Stewart who lived in Park House. Their mother is the baby girl Minnie Annabel Jane Stewart who was born in June 1918. Her older brother Donald is behind. I think this picture dates from possibly Nov 1918 the end […]
An accident occurred on the morning of Tuesday 31st July 1928 which involved the derailment of a goods train at Broompark Farm, High Blantyre. The farm was tenanted by James Rochead, a former local farmer whose farm once stood alongside the Hamilton to Strathaven railway on the L.M.S. line at a location directly across from where Saint […]
I was sent this same photo by two different people, both Alex Rochead and Isabel Fleming, and was able to put them both into contact with each other, as clearly there were people in their ancestry line who were common to both families and a very strong chance that Isabel of East Kilbride and Alex […]
During the Summer of 1965 at Crossbasket Castle, the “James Little Training College” was established and became an education centre for various trades and hobbies, operating alongside the day to day business of the Roosevelt Memorial Fund’s work with disadvantaged children. James Little was a former owner of Crossbasket who left his fortune to a […]
I recently met with Alex Rochead and Gordon Cook for coffee in April 2015. We got to discussing the old Hardie Street postcard and what was in the background. Was it the Gasworks of Stonefield Road? Was it the Larkfield Bing? Alex clarified the mystery by taking a modern photo of Hardie Street which shows […]
In early February 2015, Blantyre man Alex Rochead emailed me this photo, adding, “I have attached a photo of my grandmother Janet Hamilton Fleming. She is the dairymaid on the right hand of the photo. Both ladies are dressed in a similar manner to other photos of Blantyre maids. Janet was living at Shawmoss Farm, Pollokshields […]