In December 2014, Jim Brown posted this interesting photo in the Friends of the Calder Group. An online conversation then started about this being a possible abutment as it was made of stone and peculiar to the surroundings, with a little mystery opened up. The location is the Coal Burn running in a North – […]
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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 […]