Here we will be posting documents about historic Pettinain. Check back in regularly to see how the pages develop.
We are grateful to Charlie Todd for sourcing and sharing most of the material that has been included on these pages to date. Please share additional resources you may have with this: contact@sustainablepettinain.org
We are grateful to Charlie Todd for sourcing and sharing most of the material that has been included on these pages to date. Please share additional resources you may have with this: contact@sustainablepettinain.org
This is the view coming into Pettinain from Carstairs, not easily recognised bar the brow of the hill where the road goes down to lower Pettinain. On the left was the Smithy (and one of the original buildings still stands, albeit no longer thatched). Turning right is to Bagmoors Farm along the road showing in the adjacent photos.
The view from the main road in Pettinain, part the old well, towards Bagmoors farm. Most roofs are thatched and there is one cottage (no longer in the village) that does not have a roof.
View south-east towards the water pump. The cottages on the right hand side are no longer there and instead there are grounds around the village hall.
View of Upper Pettinain close to the end of the village heading towards Carstairs. Modernisation has taken place with Smithy Croft having lost its thatched roof, but still evident on Rose Cottage.
Ah, the irony....Capocci Ice Cream, (not) making the rounds from Airdrie?
We had snow like that in 2018 with the 'Beast from the East' and an ice cream van still comes around on Saturday night.
We had snow like that in 2018 with the 'Beast from the East' and an ice cream van still comes around on Saturday night.
In the opposite direction and season, view to Cairngryffe Street, across where Raeburn Common now stands. Look how leafy the verges are.
The original flat-roofed steel houses of Cairngryffe Street, with Grange Terrace visible on the lower right, and below renovated and the development of Raeburn Common
The original village hall, opened by MP Captain Elliott in 1923: "if the weather was going to maintain its present reputation, a hall was one of the most necessary institutions" and "required to give the inhabitants an opportunity of greater intercourse". As you can see in the party photo.