In August 1952 the historic mansion of Carnbroe, Lanarkshire, was demolished:
Carnbroe had a fine walled garden that nestled within a bend of the North Calder Water. Beside this walled garden was a Gairdener’s hoose. To play a short film please click here or on the image below:
Near my dear home there’s a garden:
In March 1906 a baby boy was born in the gairdener’s hoose:
And here is this wee boy, Thomas Fleming Adams, on his mither’s knee, together with his father [the gairdener] and his three older sisters:
And here is Thomas Fleming Adams as a young man who has just joined the Navy to sail the world’s seas:
In 1924 this poem was written by ‘a schoolboy’:
Footnote:
In 1933 Carnbroe’s walled garden opened up once again to provide for the MERRY STREET – fruit, veg, and flower shop:
