There is a reference in the 1885 Annals of Blantyre book to “an old graveyard in Blantyre, covered in daisies and buttercups that had not been disturbed for hundreds of years.” This has always puzzled me, as dead people were being interred in the old Kirkton graveyard not just at the time this book was […]
2014 My own photo taken mid September. Pictured are Beech Nuts at the side of the road, Stoneymeadow road, High Blantyre Junction with Dalton. Beech is a fairly common hedgerow plant in the UK. Largely deciduous, the nuts appearing in Summer to Autumn are about 15mm long, forming 3 sides. The seeds are bitter to […]
Photographed here by myself in September 2014 is a small stone arch, a pedestrian crossing the Lee Burn (or Lees Burn). This little crossing is directly across from Allers Farm , on the Stoneymeadow Road and crosses from Blantyre Parish into Cambuslang Parish. Looking at old maps, there is nothing on them to suggest where […]
On Stoneymeadow Road, opposite from Calderwood Lodge, is a small private house just off the road. It has an old white gate pictured just to the right of an old stone wall about 3 foot high. Half a meter left of the gate, is an old marker post on the outside wall, . Photographed here […]
On the Stoneymeadow Road, nestled in the old stone wall, directly outside Calderwood Lodge House (just before Allers Farm), is a hole in the wall. It looks quite odd to see a formed hole in the wall, and is believed to once have housed an old post box. I found it fairly strange when pointed […]
One fine Wednesday evening in 1849 about seven o’ clock in the evening, a young man named Dick, the son of a Cambuslang farmer was out airing a pony on the Stoneymeadow Toll Road, which leads down into Blantyre. He was suddenly aware of another man, dressed in labourer atire carrying a gun, then shortly […]