One of the largest earthquakes of all time. A strange subject for the Blantyre Project. However, there are connections. Recently, I became aware of a previously untold story where a High Blantyre family got caught up in the utterly devastating earthquake of San Francisco, on the West Coast of America in April 1906. Colonel Wardrop […]
John Wardrop Moore Junior owned Greenhall House and Estate from around 1885, by inheriting it from the late doctor, his father of the same name. (Wardrop Moore Senior has a commemorative arch in built into the old Kirkyard in High Blantyre). Young John Wardrop Moore (Jnr) joined the local militia volunteers in 1883 at the […]
This 1747 map of High Blantyre including Greenhall is probably the oldest map i have of Blantyre and shows Greenhall spelling as “Greinhall”, the same as it was in valuation records of the time. Several sources indicate that Greenhall house was built around 1760, but this map (which shows man made structures in red) clearly […]