Brown Street in Greenholm, looking eastwards towards the Bridgend corner. The photograph was taken from just over the bridge for Pate’s Mill lade where the man on the right can be seen standing. In June 1895 The Weekly Supplement and Advertiser reported: ‘Runaway horse - on Monday at the dinner-hour, a horse yoked to the baker’s van of the Co-operative Society bolted while coming up Brown Street. In spite of the utmost efforts of the driver to control it, the animal continued its course till, when rounding the corner at the Joseph Hood fountain, the van fell over on its side. The driver was thrown off rather roughly, and received some bad cuts about the face, but beyond this no other damage was done!’ Some of the businesses on Brown Street included Morton the blacksmith, Muir the blacksmith, Torrance the grocer, Wallace and Torrance the joiners and cabinet makers. Alexander Mathie the newsagent and J. Kirkland the coal merchant.

Children playing on the ‘Miller’s Dam’ which was located between the Institute Brig and the Greenholm Bridge. The song ‘Lang, Lang Syne ‘ by the Rev. George Lawrie describes how the children used to spoil the curling that was often played here during the winter when the water was completely frozen over. ‘Do you mind the miller’s dam/ When the frosty winter cam’/ Hoo we slade alang the curlers’ rinks/ And made their game a sham;/ When they chased us through the snaw/ We took leg-bail an’ a/ But we did it o’er again in the mornin?’ The dame was used by Pate’s Mill in Greenholm. The sluice was just out of picture on the left and it filled the lade which ran behind the houses on the south side of Brown Street. The dam was washed away in the ‘Lammas floods’ of the 1920s and the mill itself was demolished in 1977.