Hope you’re all enjoying this week’s look at 1950’s and 60’s cine films. There’s a few more to come over the next few days. Today, its a look back at a Blantyre garden in the 1960s. Sanny McVicars family sitting out in the sunshine. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others […]
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 […]
On Facebook this evening, Blantyre man Gary Doonin posted me a photo. The picture was of a small sandstone ruin that still exists today. Posting “Hi Paul this is one of 2 ruins which sit behind Bardykes on the Spittal Burn and near to river Calder on opposite side to Calderglen House and new housing […]