Thank you to Betty Weaver who recently has kindly shared several wonderful photos from her own family album. Elizabeth told me, “I’ll start with this one, in memory of our mother Jeanie Scott, who was born in the house we also grew up in, at 104 Victoria St. This is her in the neighbour’s garden […]
Elizabeth Weaver has shared these two wonderful Autumnal photos with us, adding, “I took the autumn trees one along Calderside Road a few weeks ago (Oct 14). The other one is Auchentibber. Our family spent many happy hours walking around there when we were growing up in High Blantyre.”
Pictured here is Barnhill, Blantyre in 1901. It’s a great old photo showing Stewart’s Cottage on the left (also known as Pathhead) and the Hoolet’s Nest public house on the right hand side. Stewart’s cottage was named after the weaver who lived there and the hand loom that was visible from the windows. The front […]