This photo taken by David Ritchie dates from the first decade of the 20th Century, making it now well over 110 years old. From a vantage point in the Rotten Calder River, it looks back on the former Calderwood Castle. The Blantyre side of the riverbank being on the right. At the time this was […]
In the 1700’s and 1800’s, a condition existed, which was known as “Astricted Milling”. This was a tri-party agreement between the landowner, his tenant miller and the tenant farmer on the land. It permitted that all the grain belonging to the landowner’s tenant farmers was sent to the miller for griding. The farmer would be […]
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 […]
As you head down the Blantyre Ferme Road, you can turn left on to Calder Road which leads to Newton. About quarter of a mile from that junction, and right on the exact boundary of Blantyre Parish, is a little bridge, commonly referred to in modern times (certainly as recently as 1930s) as “Redlees Bridge” […]