Allangowan – was the name of a former house at 9 Auchinraith Road, which appears to have been constructed between 1897 and 1905. By 1905 the detached house was owned by Peter MacIntosh, then following his death between 1915 and 1920, passed to owner and occupier, Margaret MacIntosh. It sat on the south side […]
On Sunday 13th October 1929, the Rev. Thomas Shanks, minister of Queen Street Arbroath Congregational Church, intimated to his congregation that he had agreed to accept the call to Blantyre Congregational Church. Mr Shanks had been minister of the Congregational Church in Arbroath since 1924. Born in Airdrie in 1890, Mr Shanks’ early education […]
Continued from Part 1 By 1881, widowed Arthur Leggat was 70 years old and by the time had moved from Bothwell back to his birth-town of Avondale where he would see out his days. His widowed sister, Isabella Stuthers aged 53, lived and worked with him as his housekeeper in Avondale at East Newton Cottage. […]