This great photo was shared by James Waddell to one of the Cambuslang pages earlier this week. I believe it is the old toll house at Stoneymeadow junction, just outside of High Blantyre. By 1793, applications were approved for a Tollhouse to be created on the Turnpike road at the Dalton Junction of Stoneymeadow Road, […]
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1953 Stoneymeadow
This photo is from the Hamilton Advertiser 28th November 1953, and the caption read, “The bare branches of trees already prepared for the coming of winter provide a frame for the trim, white-washed houses of Stoneymeadow in this picture taken from above the main High Blantyre-East Kilbride road.” Of course this was a time before […]
1953 Stoneymeadow
This photo is from 1953 (was that really 66 years ago?!) Looking down from near “Allers Farm” northwards towards the Dalton junction at Stoneymeadow. The little buildings on the right at the junction are no longer there. At the time, Stoneymeadow Road was the main route from Blantyre to East Kilbride. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with […]
1960’s Stoneymeadow
Who remembers the shop at Stoneymeadow junction or the BP filling station next to it? At a time before the EK Expressway, this was on the main road leading up to East Kilbride. The houses still stand today. The scene is either 1950’s or 1960s. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for […]
The Generals Bridge, Stoneymeadow
Taken from the book, “The History of Crossbasket Castle” by Paul Veverka 2015 (c) According to Mr. R.B Walker, (County Clerk in the 1920’s), the General’s bridge, nearby to Crossbasket Estate was of great interest to the seventh Baronet of Calderwood, General Sir William Maxwell, the landowner. This was probably due to his Calderwood Castle […]
1955 Chieftain at Stoneymeadow
Pictured here in 1955 (courtesy of the late Neil Gordon’s book) is the Chieftain bus at Stoneymeadow Road at the Dalton Junction. The bus is heading towards Blantyre. Laurie of Hamilton , the proprietors of the Chieftain Buses, ran a service from Hamilton, along High Blantyre Road, Burnbank, Main Street, High Blantyre and up […]
Crossbasket & Basket: Origins of the Name
The name ‘Crossbasket’ is in relation to the Tower, the Estate and tied lands. The name ‘Basket’, being a sub part of these lands. The name “Crossbasket” likely took it name from ‘Basket Cross’, an ancient stone cross which once stood a small distance from the tower. It was often spelled “Korsbas”, or “Korsebasket”. Near the […]
Fatal Impaling at Stoneymeadow Road
About ten o’clock on Wednesday 19th July 1933, just as the light was dipping, a terrible accident occurred at the junction of Stoneymeadow Road and Dalton, which left one person dead. Richard Dale, residing at 48 Park Street, Cambuslang was running his Blantyre sweetheart back to High Blantyre, when tragedy struck. He was riding a motor […]
1905 Stoneymeadow Sweet shop
This photo shows the former Stoneymeadow Tollhouse, and subsequently later, the Boyds Farm around 1905. Around the 1870’s, the Boyds had sold up and left for New Zealand, and the property no longer afterwards was a working farm. The building located at the junction of Stoneymeadow Road and Dalton was by this time, a most […]