Welcome to Clydesdale's Heritage
Welcome 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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Burgh Surveyor’s Map of Lanark
mapThe map is a fascinating glimpse of Lanark just before the outbreak of war in 1914. Interesting features on this map include a plethora of railway lines which include a railway…
St Kentigern’s Church, Lanark
articleIt is remarkable that in Scotland there is only one medieval church dedicated to St Kentigern under his own proper name. There are many others dedicated to him under the…
Wiston Mill
postcardWiston, Mill near Tinto. This is a view of the L-shaped Mill of Wiston. Built or totally reconstructed in the late 18th century. It is certainly in existence on Forest’s…
Lanarkshire Yeomanry Camp
postcardThis is a picture of the Glasgow Yeomanry Camp on the side of Tinto. It was issued by the Y.M.C.A. It is amazing to think that postcards were created so…
Forest map
mapA Lesmahagow map from 1819. It is better for detail and is more precise than the Ross Map. It shows too the owners of the principle houses, which is very…
Lesmahagow Gas Works
postcardAn interesting view of Lesmahagow with its gas works. All medium size communities had their own place for producing coal gas. Many of these survived till the advert of natural…
Lesmahagow
postcardThis is a view of Lesmahagow done by Archibald Brown, a photographer from Lanark. This card was sent from Lesmahagow in 1904. At that time there was no public park.…
Curfew Bell, Leadhills
postcardA ‘Valentines Series’ postcard showing the Curfew Bell in Leadhills. The bell, dating from 1770, was originally rung to mark shift changes in the mines, a forerunner of the factory…
