This photo, though not the best quality dates from the 1960’s and shows Sydes Brae, looking down the hill back towards Blantyre. In 1598, within the Great Seal of Scotland, Lord Blantyre was given the lands of Blantyre, which included Sides (Sydes Brae.) Much more recently, children in the 20th Century would sledge down this hill in winter […]
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The Auchentibber Tramway
There’s confirmed evidence that iron ore was mined in Auchentibber from the late 1700’s, but it was the mining of limestone that left a permanent indent on the hamlet of Auchentibber, on the south side of Blantyre. From as early as the 1830’s limestone was mined from large holes in the ground, which eventually formed […]

