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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Forest map of 1819 showing Lesmahagow

Forest map

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Year: 1819

A 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…

Postcard showing Lesmahagow Gas Works

Lesmahagow Gas Works

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An 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 postcard from 1904

Lesmahagow

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Year: 1904

This 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 postcard from Leadhills

Curfew Bell, Leadhills

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A ‘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…

1904 postcard from Leadhills

Leadhills

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Year: 1904

This card is an undivided back card which had been made by Archibald Brown of Lanark. The message had to be written on the front as the back was reserved…

High Street in Lanark in 1914

High Street, Lanark

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Year: 1914

The old High Street in Lanark was once a great treasure, though, sadly, it has been ruined over the years. This card was sent from Lanark on 26th June, 1914.…

Photocrom postcard of Lanark's High Street

High Street, Lanark

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This is a photochrom postcard of Lanark High Street is probably late 1950s/1960s. Notice the post-war central reservation. There is a story that the chain was purchased by Lanark Council…

Greetings from Forth

Greetings from Forth

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A postcard from Forth showing the Main Street (looking South West), the Bowling Green, the Glen Forth (from the Cleuch Bridge), the children’s playground, and another shot from the Main…

Old postcard from Forth

Main Street, Forth

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Invoice from Robert Ferguson to William Dixon

Dixon and Co, Forth invoice

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Year: 1895
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This invoice from Robert Ferguson to William Dixon is of interest as it shows that in 1895 William Dixon & co were doing the preparatory work for their largest mine…

Sandilands viaduct to Douglas, 1963

Sandilands Viaduct to Douglas

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Year: 1963

This is a special train that has just crossed the Sandilands Viaduct going to Douglas and Muirkirk. The front train is an early example of a Caledonian railway engine. It…

Church parade, LIY Camp at Douglas

Church Parade, LIY Camp at Douglas

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