Here’s an uncommon, hidden view of some existing steps. This set of stone steps is at the side of the Priory Bridge which crosses the Rotten Calder river on the boundary of Blantyre and Cambuslang Parishes. The entrance from the old abandoned former road has been blocked up. The steps are near Bardykes Mill, which […]
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Plaque Unveiled at Stan’s Steps
Steps for Stan
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 […]
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1861 Residents & Servants Crossbasket
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 […]
Residents & Servants 1860s
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 […]
1903 Children at Shuttle Row Steps
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 […]
1916 Shuttle Row Steps
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, […]
Funeral Delay at Alpine Street 1934
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 […]