One of the worlds more remarkable artists was JMW Turner, a name I’m sure you’ll have heard of before. Its recently come to my attention that in the 1830’s he made this sketch of Bothwell Bridge whilst visiting Lanarkshire. The bridge having been expanded around that time would certainly have given him cause to stop […]
Well here’s a rather interesting piece of Blantyre history with a family emigrating to Australia and forming what became known as ‘Blantyre’, Queensland, Australia! Marion Turner sent me this email saying, ” I have an article from a 1902 newspaper about a family gathering of people called ‘Alcorn’. It says that Mr William Alcorn his […]
It recently was brought to my attention that the Tate Gallery have various sketches now uploaded from their collection for viewing online. What a surprise it was to see that the world famous artist Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851 had visited Blantyre in 1834 and sketched the ruins of Bothwell Castle, Bothwell Bridge and Blantyre Priory. […]
Two photos of former Greenhall House, High Blantyre. One you may have seen, the other less likely. These were shared by Marion Turner whose grandfather, Thomas Denholm was the coach driver for the Moore family of Greenhall prior to 1910. As the family left for Australia, they obviously went with fond memories of Greenhall, for […]