Shared here by George Young, this recent photo is off the old circular watertank just off Newhousemill Road. Not far from Stewartfield Farm, the brick built tank dates from the 1880’s and is still a ruin today. I don’t have further information about this, so if anybody knows what exactly it was used for, […]
It has been previously written in 2004 by a respected late Blantyre author that Blantyre had 26 farms. Unfortunately, this is something I don’t agree with. Within Blantyre Parish, I’m proposing there were actually 38 farms. Listing them in alphabetical order, there were/are as follows: 1 Auchentibber Farm 2 Bardykes Farm 3 Barnhill Farm 4 Barnhill Wee Farm 5 […]