This is Christina Main photographed at Little Udston, near Blantyre in the 1920s. Looks like she was doing the milking. She was still milking cows by hand at eighty and lived into her 90s. She never got married. Jim Cochrane, who shared this photo told me, “She lived her whole life as a Farmer and […]
It seems appropriate to post this today, given each 22nd October, people for many years were remembering the Blantyre Pit Disaster. The annual meeting of the subscribers to the Blantyre and Udston Accident Funds was held on Monday 19th December 1927 in the secretary’s office, 146 Buchanan Street, Glasgow. This was an annual meeting […]
Jim Cochrane kindly shared this photo, adding, “This picture taken in 1910 is of Christina and Robert Main. They were Born at Barnhill in a house Roughly where 130 Broompark road is now. They were My Gran Marshalls older sibblings . Christina was born on 10 June 1909 and lived untill she was almost […]
Pictured in 1920, is a photo of the Main Children, taken at Little Udston Farm. At the back is Christine Main ,who never married but said she went out with Peter Wilkie when she was young. Left is Janet Cowie Main ,she never was married either. Both lived at Rowantreehill Farm Forth where they moved to after little […]
Jim Cochrane shared this family photo from 1927. Jim told me, “My Gran Annie Main Later Marshall in the middle and her brother Alec to the left and her older sister Christine to the left . This was taken at Little Udston Farm. 1927” I think this picture more than hints at what a hard […]
Jim Cochrane shared this photo with us, saying, “Alex Main From Little Udston Farm my Great Uncle and Jim Marshall Calderside Farm my mums Brother. This picture was taken at RowantreeHill Farm Forth where the mains moved to when the Little Udston was taken over for building in 1927.“