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Village transport through the ages
Two men seated on an 1886 Coventry Rotary Quadracycle (Strathblane Heritage Archive)
1889 Peggy Graham at Ballewan
1890 Annie & Peggy Graham at Ballewan
Annie Graham visiting Aucheneden 1892. The horse is called Lady Betty
Blanefield Easter 1894 Peter Clark with Peggy and Helen Graham
1896 Peggy and Helen Graham with remarkably modern-looking tricycle
Eddy, Charlie and Willie Edmonstone with nurse at Duntreath, 1903
A Panhard Levassor registered in 1904 (Strathblane Heritage Archive)
Early Car at Blanefield House
Samuel Cody flew probably the first plane to come over Strathblane (29 July 1911)
Scotsman
Report of the 1911 Air Race
Early Cycling Rally, Strathblane
The village’s two ministers, Theodor Johnson and William Moyes with their bicycles
Donkey Cart at Ballewan Farm 1917. The boys are the farmer’s sons, 15-year-old Frank Boyes and his brother eight-year-old Robert wearing fancy dress for Red Cross Week.
Dr McMillan’s wife Meg and son Johnny using a prototype motorcycle and sidecar
Guests and their cars arriving for an event at Craigend Castle, Mugdock, in the 1920s
Stable Block/Garage for Craigend Castle, 1920s
Stirling Observer December 30 1926
Rankin Bros bus running from Glasgow to Balfron via Strathblane, 1930s. The service began in 1929
Glasgow Corporation Transport Albion buses struggling round Strathblane’s version of the Devil’s Elbow on a snowy day in the 1930s
Horse drawn milk float delivering “Pure Milk” from Cuilt Farm Dairy, Blanefield, 1930s ?
Lyall’s Garage (Yarrow House, Glasgow Road) decorated for the coronation of George VI in 1937
Lyall’s Garage (Yarrow House)
The Lyall’s bus fleet 1979
Steam Railcar Retaliator, Blanefield 1938
Blanefield Station September 1951 Loco is a Reid J37 built in 1918 by the North British Locomotive Company, Glasgow.
A locomotive coming through the level crossing on Station Road, Blanefield
Passenger train for Blanefield standing in Queen St Station, Glasgow in 1936. This former North British Railway Class C/6 was a regular on the line until passenger services were withdrawn in 1951.
3 May 1958 Steam Special stops at Blanefield, seven years after passenger services were withdrawn from the line
16 May 1959, steam special disgorges its passengers at Blanefield Station one last time.
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