INDEX
Ballagan
Blane Valley Burns Club
Blane Valley Railway
Blanefield Printworks
Blanefield Smithy
Britons: Strathblane and the Britons, AD 400 to 1100
Children’s Home Hospital (1903-1994)
Dumbrock Mills and Bleachfields
Duntreath and the Edmonstones
Edenkill/Edenkiln
Edmonstone Hall
Farming
Free Church
Jenny Brash
Mugdock
Netherton/Blanefield
Romans and Picts Around Strathblane
School (1716 – 1966)
Shops
Slavery
Slavery and the Abolitionists
St Kessog’s Roman Catholic Church
Village Activities
Water
Whisky
World War One
World War Two – Strathblane Seven
World War Two – The Home Front
Parish Church (1216-1982)
“The church is a beautiful building of modern Gothic, reared in 1803.” Rev Hamilton Buchanan, Second Statistical Account of the Parish of Strathblane, 1841. Early History The parish of Strathblane is more than 800 years old. The “parochia de Strathblachane” is first mentioned in a document defining the boundaries of the parish of Campsie. Though…
World War Two – The Home Front
Introduction During the Second World War Strathblane, in common with many other villages, was organised into areas to respond in case of enemy attack. Villagers were encouraged to attend the various Auxiliary Fire Service demonstrations and to “man the pumps”! With many of the men away fighting, women were quite often involved in these activities…
