A promise was fulfilled this week with a small memorial to a departed friend in a woodland place once held so fondly. In 2017, Stan Paul met up one evening at my home to share his Greenhall photos. It was a nostalgic evening in front of the fire for Stan and one where I learned a […]
On Sunday 24th February this year (2019), myself and some fellow colleagues from Friends of the Calder headed off to Greenhall armed with shovels and spades. The aim was to find a set of steps in the former estate which the late Stan Paul, who once lived there, remembered as a child. We knew roughly […]
Tomorrow, Sunday 24 February 2019 will be a day when I fulfil a promise to an old friend, sadly departed. In 2017, fellow Friends of the Calder colleague Stan Paul met up one evening at my home to share his Greenhall photos. It was a nostalgic evening for Stan and one where I learned a […]
The 1861 census reveals much about the inhabitants of Crossbasket estate, High Blantyre. On the day of the census, 31 year old John Brown was the coachman, residing in the Lodge house at the entrance to the estate. Living there also was wife Jane Brown aged 39 acting as the Lodge Keeper, and four children […]
A final snippet from “The History of Crossbasket Castle” for now…. The 1861 census reveals much about the inhabitants of Crossbasket estate. On the day of the census, 31 year old John Brown was the coachman, residing in the Lodge house at the entrance to the estate. Living there also was wife Jane Brown […]
Hopefully this is another new photo for you. Pictured here in 1903 are the steps at the bottom of Shuttle Row, Blantyre Works. The location is near the current Wages House, across from the entrance to the current bridge. At a time when the mill buildings were condemned, a little boy is standing on […]
Exactly one hundred years ago in 1916, this photo was taken at Shuttle Row, Blantyre Works. It shows the very poor condition of the homes, which were then largely occupied by miners families, following the closure of the mills. The homes had been condemned over a decade earlier but still were not demolished. Indeed, […]
An elderly woman had a narrow escape, six families were marooned, and a funeral was delayed when the outside stone stairway leading to an upper flat at a two-storey Blantyre tenement collapsed on Saturday 6th January 1934. The woman, named Mrs. Meechn, was on her way to the house on the second floor of a […]