In January 2015, George Park from Arbroath emailed me his family tree, showing his line coming together from the Forrests of “The Deans” Cambuslang and the Mains at Broompark Road. He had carefully mapped out his ancestry adding notes. I see a lot of names connected to other Blantyre’s farms, so thought I would post […]
You may have seen this postcard before, and I’m not in the habit of repeating content on this site, but if you look closely, the postcard has been remastered and is probably the best quality found online. The work is the effort of George Park, who visited my home with his mother and aunt in […]
This photo was given to me in the mid 1990’s by the late historian Neil Gordon. (Neil used to live 3 doors up from my parents and knew of my growing interest in local history). Actually, its a newspaper photo and wasn’t scanned in particularly high resolution. The scribble I made on that day, told […]
In Spring 2014, I was given a copy of an old account of various historical events in Blantyre, primarily centering around Barnhill. This old account was given to Alex Rochead’s wife when she was a teacher at Auchinraith Primary. The words were actually written much earlier around 1940 and they relate to events 80 years […]
This charming old photograph was kindly shown to me by Blantyre Project reader, Marel Adam. Pictured in 1956 is Barnhill Farm. The farm was located on Bardykes Road, on the opposite side of the top of the Peth Brae. Marel’s Uncle and Grandmother are sitting in the family Jag, ready for a day out at […]
This wonderful old picture was taken at a time when photography was a new, emerging technology. Unbelievably, it was taken in our very own Douglas Street in 1880 (thats over 130 years ago!) and may be amongst the old photos of Blantyre. Douglas Street, for those not familiar, is a main artery in Blantyre now, […]