A great photo of Jimmy and Minnie Rochead, taken at Malcolmwood Farm. These are the parents of Blantyre man Alex Rochead, who has shared many photos and information on this website. This photo though, was sent in by Jim Cochrane. Also attached are another two photos that Jim believes may be relatives of Alex. If […]
How simple things were in the days before phone or email! On the rear of this “Stonefield, Blantyre” tram postcard it is addressed to Gavin Millar, Grain Merchant esq, Strathaven. The message beside it reads “You might send one barrel treacle to H (High) Blantyre at once and oblige. Alex Craig.” Can you imagine ordering […]
On 20th November 2014, Betty McLean in Canada sent me an email saying, “I was just reading about the cleanup and the removal of the “H” at the roundabout. I remember someone saying that there is only a pipe in the ground where the miners were brought up after the explosion and it is near […]
This colourised picture of Bardykes Road at Barnhill dates from between 1905 – 1910. I don’t think I have seen this particular photo before (although there are several very similar). A horse and cart sits outside Barnhill Farm, with a wee boy sitting on the back. Two wee girls, not much older than toddlers wander […]
I recently posted about Park House and its history here http://blantyreproject.com/2014/10/02/blantyre-park-house-sydes-brae/ Alex Rochead contacted me recently saying, “My grandfather had been in the army for many years serving in South Africa and India. When he returned to the UK and was demobbed he worked at Hamilton barracks as a Barracks Warden. I have been told […]
I’ve previously written about a path leading from Glasgow Road down to Blantyre Works Mills called, “The Dandy”. You can read more about it here. http://blantyreproject.com/2014/03/02/origins-of-the-dandy/ This article relates to one particular part of that path, at the point where it crosses over the Caledonian Railway. (The railway line at that point leads out to […]
Pictured as a young man, Arthur Rochead is out delivering milk in the 1940s. Alex Rochead told me, “My uncle Arthur was born on 17 May 1929. Here is is delivering milk before the use of milk bottles.” If he’s eighteen or so in this photo, it may be around 1947. The location looks like […]