Joy McLennan sent this interesting message, “Thomas Watson (Tam) and Agnes Thompson (her ma was Isabella MacLean) along with sons Robert, Jock, Tom, Bill, Alexander and daughters Agnes, Jean, Ann and Mary left for Canada around 1914. They were bound for Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. I’m Curious to know where they lived in Blantyre? (A Farm?) […]
Taken from high above Burnbank Hillhouse, this aerial photo from 1961 looks back towards High Blantyre. At a time before the EK Expressway, you can see the relatively new Kirkton Avenue and Waverley Terrace in the Housing Estate in the foreground, which had only been constructed a few years earlier. The fields to the […]
Mary Kane writes, “My mother Barbara McCabe was born in Bellshill Hospital on 9/2/1926 and her father’s address is given as 53 Auchinraith Road. Her mother’s death certificate shows they were still living at this address when she died on 20 November 1947. Interestingly my mother’s elder sister Bridget McCabe was born at 39 Auchinraith […]
Continuing a look this week at some aerial imagery from the 1960s. This time from 1961, is Blantyre Industrial Estate. In the foreground middle is Burnbrae Farm, to the left the relatively new flats at Hillhouse and Udston. The focus though is on the Industrial Estate, which at this time was only 14 or 15 […]
Next time you’re at the David Livingstone Centre, look for this lamppost outside the Cafe at the Africa Pavilion. You’ll notice carefully the words “Blantyre” on the old cast lampost. Below it on the glass pane it says “LMS Railway”. Did you know this lamp was salvaged from an era gone by at Blantyre […]
Wow. Finally, an excellent picture of High Blantyre Prefabs in their entirety. This aerial view from 1961 looks westwards from above Burnbank back over to Blantyre. The industrial estate sneaking into the picture to the left, but its the former Prefabs that are the main focus. To the back of the photo are the […]
Do you remember the stained glass windows in Shuttle Row? Due to the way the glass was made, with each piece varying in thickness and set in lead, they’d buckled and warped but everyone at Scottish Glass Studios has done an amazing job at restoring them!
This is a wonderful photo. From 1937 or 1938, it is the only view I’ve ever seen photographed from the original, suspension bridge in Blantyre (closed in 1949). Looking downstream, you can see the weir, and beyond that to the buildings is the background, where the current bridge is located. The flat area the […]
