Though not the best quality, this photo shows the former Auchentibber Gardens, High Blantyre. White Pickets fences around the quoting green over a hundred years ago, wooden rustic trellises and pagodas at the back of the Old Inn. All this now lost to nature and woodland at the back of the Auchentibber War Memorial.
“Has anyone got a close up photograph of the Blantyre War Memorial?” That was the question being asked in November 1977 by Hamilton District Council who wanted to replace a plaque stolen from the memorial months ago. Shamefully, the plaque commemorating the names of Blantyre’s fallen was stolen, pulled right off the war memorial and […]
I took these photos early on Remembrance morning, earlier this month. This is the perimeter fence at Auchentibber War Memorial, just off Parkneuk Road. In recent years, the young conifers have sprouted somewhat, now higher than the small fence, and whilst everything looks nice and tidy just now, it made me wonder what this area […]
Renovation is Complete Well, what can we say! The Council have excelled themselves! (Not often we’ve said that!) Auchentibber War Memorial in High Blantyre is now fully rebuilt and landscaped, ready in time for Remembrance Sunday. The memorial was demolished and rebuilt with grant money following concerns about its dilapidated state. Council workers have been […]
From the condition of the stone on the Blantyre War Memorial, i’d guess this great photo was taken in the 1930s or 1940s. It is of course the war memorial at the High Blantyre Cemetery just off Cemetery Road. The buildings pictures are now gone. It is clear from the lawn, shrubs, beds and railings […]
I have learned yesterday that the Auchenitbber War Memorial is to soon be renovated by South Lanarkshire Council. The monument has been suffering in recent years due to heavy traffic and poor previous repairs. Following a poll by Blantyre Telegraph in December 2016 (on behalf of SLC, Blantyre Community Council, Blantyre Project and various other […]
The final instalment of Flora Dickson Potter’s memoirs and research about Auchentibber. Written in her own words, Flora in this part discussed the Auchentibber War Memorial. “By 1919, the war having ended, war memorials were springing up in many towns and villages. JBH Struthers and Miss Wallace were the organisers of a fund that was […]