Blantyre Project has lost a friend and Blantyre itself, lost a true gent. Very sad news last night as we heard of the passing of well known Blantyre man, John Dunsmore. I’ll miss all his interesting comments and snippets of local information. I’ve learned a lot on this page from Wee Yanni over the years. […]
A week or so ago, I posted about Richard Rankin’s discovery at Crossbasket, an inscription into the rock saying “Wee Yanni Pool”. You can read about that discovery here http://blantyreproject.com/2014/10/12/wee-yanni-pool-crossbasket/ As a follow up story, a few people have commented on a possible theory as to who carved it. Jim Brown went to the scene […]
Richard Rankin took these three photos in early October 2014. Shared here, they feature an interesting inscription on the side of a rock, adjacent to the River Calder. It says “Wee Yanni Pool”. The exact location is on the left river bank at Crossbasket. Richard said, “I first noticed this years ago up trouting, at […]