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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
People in Blantyre may be aware of an old, detached stone built property called Aller’s Farm, located just off Stoneymeadow Road, High Blantyre. The name Alders appeared on old maps, but Alders and Allers are essentially the same name, and both signify the Alder tree which grows at the Lee Burn nearby. During the 1800’s […]
A photo from Alex Rochead, dating from 2004/2005, when the grounds of Crossbasket were fairly neglected. Pictured from the boundary of the Crossbasket Castle grounds is “The General’s Bridge”. In recent months I’ve been forced to change my opinion about whom this was built for. Commonly thought to be Liuet General Peter, I am now swayed […]
Thank you to Christina Forrest for sending in her father’s photo of the General’s Bridge, Stoneymeadow Road. A horse and cart is pictured crossing over the Bridge and the scene looks similar to today. The back of the photo is dated 1924. Christina told me, “I’m not sure how my father ended up with this […]