The Glebe at High Blantyre is a relatively modern house, built in 1963 on the former site of Glebe Cottage, on Craigmuir Road, High Blantyre. It is large, built of brick and covered with white roughcast. It is one and half storeys with a pitched roof. The entrance is gated and there are some tall confiers […]
Elizabeth Weaver shared her photos with us recently after a nice walk out at Bardykes Woodland and Milheugh, in June 2015. Elizabeth told me “the fields looked so beautiful, with Summer growth and with the sweet smell of hawthorn blossom and wild garlic”. Wild Garlic grows in abundance in the Calder woodlands, especially around Bardykes […]
Thanks to Elizabeth Weaver who sent in this photo of Victoria Street , taken in 1957. She told me, “It’s funny to see how empty the street is – and to see the old gas lamp. I was only a child when I took this – my brother Brian and I were given wee cameras […]
Next is a photo from the late 1950’s of Blantyre Old Parish Sunday School. Elizabeth Weaver, who shared this photo added, “here’s a photo taken at a Sunday School party (Blantyre Old). My brother should have been there but he must have avoided the photo I know some of the boys – Iain McAlpine, Henry […]
Betty Weaver (nee Scott), formerly of Victoria Street shared a treasured photo of her as a baby along with her grandpa around 1948. She told me, “here I’m helping Grandpa Scott to cut the rhubarb so we could have ‘rhubarb and sugar’ to eat – the rhubarb was washed and cut into a small stalk […]
Elizabeth Weaver has kindly shared this photo, adding “This is my dear friend Betty Simpson in our front garden in Victoria St. She was wearing one roller skate and I had the other one! Taken with my wee Brownie 127 camera in 1957 or thereabouts. Note the miners going to work at Dixon’s in the […]
A photo from 1948, and little Betty Weaver (who has kindly shared this photo) stands in her back garden in Victoria Street. Betty told me, “This is just me, Betty Weaver as a baby on the path at the side of 104 Victoria St. In those days the garden was much bigger – I see […]