INDEX
Ballagan
Blane Valley Railway
Blanefield Printworks
Blanefield Smithy
Children’s Home Hospital (1903-1994)
Dumbrock Mills and Bleachfields
Duntreath and the Edmonstones
Edenkill/Edenkiln
Farming
Free Church
Mugdock
Netherton/Blanefield
Romans and Picts Around Strathblane
School (1716 – 1966)
Shops
St Kessog’s Roman Catholic Church
Village Activities
Water
Whisky
World War One
World War Two
Blane Valley Railway
RAILWAY MANIA By 8.30 on the morning of Monday 1 July 1867 an excited crowd had gathered in Blanefield near the bottom of the Cuilt Brae to greet the community’s […]
Blanefield Printworks
Block printing is the printing of patterns on fabrics using a carved block, usually made from wood. It originated in India around the 5th century BC but did not arrive […]
Blanefield Smithy
Blanefield’s charming art gallery is housed in a smithy that is thought to be around 300 years old, though its exact age is unknown. It is certainly one of the […]
Children’s Home Hospital (1903-1994)
“Often a child made a dramatic recovery on the back of good food, fresh air & loving care” – Margaret McIntyre, who worked at Strathblane Children’s Home Hospital for two […]
Dumbrock Mills and Bleachfields
The abundance of water meant that bleaching and water-driven industries were commonplace in the parish in the 18th century and lasted well into the 19th century. By 1870 most of […]
Duntreath and the Edmonstones
Originally thought to have been of Flemish stock, the Edmonstone family are said to have come to Scotland in the train of Princess Margaret who became the Queen of Malcolm […]
Edenkill/Edenkiln
Edenkill (now Edenkiln) occupied the heart of the community we now call Strathblane and was one of the three villages that comprised the parish, along with Netherton (Blanefield) and Mugdock. […]
Free Church
John Guthrie Smith records that the neat little church and manse belonging to the Free Church stands on the site of the old village of Netherton and the first ordained […]
Netherton/Blanefield
“Nothing is now left of Old Netherton save the smithy and the school-house, and its very name seems likely to perish, for the factory originally called Blane Printfield has expanded […]
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 […]
Romans and Picts Around Strathblane
By Dr Murray Cook As every patriotic Scot knows, the Romans tried and failed to conquer Scotland…the only nation in Europe to resist the might of the Eagles. Unfortunately, this […]
School (1716 – 1966)
Though the first Strathblane parish schoolmaster was appointed in 1716, it was many years before the school was housed in a permanent schoolhouse. This was finally built in 1781 at […]
St Kessog’s Roman Catholic Church
The opening of St Kessog’s Roman Catholic Church in Blanefield on 28 May 1893 was the culmination of much enterprise in the parish. The number of Roman Catholics had increased […]
World War One
Boer War Of 1899-1902 One of the famous battles of this war was the Relief of Mafeking, which was marked by a bonfire in a field near Napier Lodge. The […]
World War Two
The white building in the foreground is Sunnyside which was demolished by a landmine in March 1941 killing four people. During the Second World War Strathblane, in common with many […]
