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Village Activities

Illustrated Essays

INDEX

  • Blanefield Thistle

  • Strathblane Cricket Club

  • Strathblane Lawn Tennis Club

  • Strathendrick Pipe Band

  • The Blane Valley Players


  • Blanefield Thistle

    Blanefield Thistle

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  • Strathblane Cricket Club

    Strathblane Cricket Club

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  • Strathblane Lawn Tennis Club

    Strathblane Lawn Tennis Club

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  • Strathendrick Pipe Band

    Strathendrick Pipe Band

    A comforting and familiar sight and sound, the Band is a regular feature of village life, including its stirring playing at the annual Remembrance Sunday service and parade in November. Its weekly rehearsals at the Edmonstone Hall make themselves known to the Glasgow Road neighbours. It was not actually the Blane Valley’s first local music…

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  • The Blane Valley Players

    The Blane Valley Players

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Edmonstone Hall

Slavery and the Abolitionists

Britons: Strathblane and the Britons, AD 400 to 1100

Jenny Brash

World War Two – The Home Front

World War Two – Strathblane Seven

Slavery

Blanefield Smithy

Whisky

Blane Valley Burns Club

Ballewan

Shops

Duntreath and the Edmonstones

School (1716 – 1966)

Dumbrock Mills and Bleachfields

Romans and Picts Around Strathblane

Mugdock

Carbeth

Edenkill/Edenkiln

Netherton/Blanefield

Blane Valley Railway

Water

St Kessog’s Roman Catholic Church

Blanefield Printworks

Parish Church (1216-1982)

Free Church

World War One

Farming

Children’s Home Hospital (1903-1994)

Ballagan

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