We’ve been enjoying Penny Robertson’s photos this week. Penny who lives overseas shared this 1910’s photo and told me, “My grandfather Daniel Sprott, a Blantyre man is in the front row on the left. It must have been taken during the war years because of the man in military uniform. I gather my grandfather was […]
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1930’s Tennis Courts at Crossbasket
Looking at the 1936 map of High Blantyre, I see that there were Tennis Courts at Crossbasket. About midway along the estate entrance road between the Lodge and Crossbasket House, was a large flat area which in the 1930’s was used as a tennis court. The playing fields do not appear on the 1910 map, […]


