At a Blantyre School Board meeting in June 1903, Mr Menzies raised the subject of the very poor condition of the stone wall around Auchinraith School. In particular, the pointing had fallen out, leaving the wall starting to become dangerous. To his mind, it was greatly disappointing that the wall had given away to deterioration […]
On the 4th July 1872, a dispute arrived in court between the Blantyre estate of Bardykes and the opposing estate over the River Calder, of Caldergrove. The dispute centred around the river itself which formed the boundary between Blantyre and Cambuslang Parishes and clearly the matter couldn’t be resolved by neighbourly discussion. Safe to say […]
My good colleague, Garry Lee, who runs the wonderful Historic Hamilton facebook page, emailed me this photo adding, “This is a picture of my mum Janette McCallum sitting at the Blantyre boating pond. It would have been early to mid 70s.” Seeing the small wall around the boating pond at Stonefield Public Park (now […]
Whilst browsing over a map from 1822, I noticed something peculiar on the Turnpike Road in High Blantyre, which had only been built 32 years previous to that date. The Turnpike created a new road at an elevated position above Greenhall, walled with a 3 foot stone wall, which still exists today at the top […]
Gordon Cook sent me this photo in January, which was taken in the High Blantyre kirkyard, within the stone perimeter wall, on the inside right of the gates. The picture was shared to see if anybody knew what the stone could be? (If anybody definitively knows, please get in contact) Using some computer trickery, Gordon […]
For a long time, I’ve been fascinated by the Kirkyard wall and the Wardrop Moore Arch, at Kirkton. So little has been written about this, and many mysteries remain, which I admit I don’t have all the answers. When was the wall originally built? Why was the earthworks raised inside the kirkyard? Why was the […]
In October 2014, I was contacted by Andy Bain who said whilst out walking recently in Low Blantyre (when the River Clyde was low), he observed what looked like a tunnel and a nearby structure. The ‘Tunnel’ was photographed from the opposite side of the river in July 2014 during a real dry spell and […]