Welcome to Clydesdale's Heritage


Clydesdale's HeritageWelcome to Clydesdale's Heritage, a project aimed at encouraging all people to take an active interest in the heritage and history of the Clydesdale area.

This website is one of several initiatives from Lanark and District Archaeology Society (LADAS) to encourage engagement with the history of the region. The project includes lecture programmes, fieldwalks, cataloguing artefacts, inspiring school pupils during talks and presentations, and working with like-minded organisations – with the end goal being to record and preserve the heritage of Clydesdale.

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Carmacoup and the Country Wool Trade

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The valley of the Douglas Water narrows after passing through Glespin; and the road west clings to the hillside as it winds towards the county boundary and onward to Muirkirk,…

Main St. Forth

In Search of the Flying Wheel

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The 1880’s saw a boom in the popularity of cycling as mass-produced safety cycles became more affordable to working folk. Bicycles made everyday travel to work a little easier, and…

Drovers

Drove Roads in Carnwath Parish – the lost road to London

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Much of Scotland’s wealth once came from the sale of black cattle, raised in highland glens and islands then driven great distances to the annual trysts at Dunblane and Falkirk.…

Carnwath Pavilion

The Uncertain Future of Carnwath Pavilion

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With a little imagination, Carnwath pavilion could be the sort of place you might find Hercule Poirot as he ponders the evidence of some terrible crime before revealing the culprit.…

Main Street from Abbeygreen, Lesmahagow

Main Street from Abbeygreen, Lesmahagow

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Photographic postcard, Valentine & Sons, Dundee and London; postmarked 1958

Blackwood from the Hill

Blackwood from the Hill

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Coloured postcard, published by Brown, Stationer, Blackwood; No.1167, postmarked 1909

Main St, Lesmahagow

Main St, Lesmahagow

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B&W printed postcard; published by J. Young, Lesmahagow. Posted 1922

Coalburn station

Coalburn Station

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B&W printed postcard; Mackenzie’s series. Postmarked 1903.

Thankerton

Thankerton

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B&W printed postcard. Published by Forrest, Post Office, Thankerton. Postmarked 1935

Main Road, Crawford

Main Road, Crawford

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Coloured postcard, published by Robert Murray, Post Office, Crawford. Postmark undecipherable.

Auchengray Parish Church & School

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Coloured postcard. Albany series, by W. Inglis, post office, Auchengray, posted 1913.

Tinto Hotel, Symington

Tinto Hotel, Symington

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B&W printed postcard, “British manufacture”, posted 1917