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This is Blantyre woman, Jean (Jeannie) Smellie who many people may remember as being ‘Nurse MacFarlane’. It’s impossible to tell how many babies this midwife brought into the world, but it was a LOT! In those days of home births, there was a reliance on midwives being on call. Jean was brought up in Craig […]
I think this photo is probably the early 1970’s. It’s most definitely Glasgow Road, Blantyre looking westwards. Taken from near Stonefield Parish Church, I can see Walter Batters Ironmongers in the middle of the photo and Lightbody’s Bakery on the far right. What’s your memories of the buildings and businesses in this photo?
A few days ago I posted about Rigo Russo’s shop on Glasgow Road. This brilliant photo of the Russo’s has dropped in my inbox. Rigo Russo is pictured at the front, Armando on his right and Arthur to the left. With thanks to Carmen Wood, who told me, ” Rigo’s brother was Armando who had […]
Here’s a fantastic nostalgic photo you won’t have seen before. It’s Glasgow Road in the early 1970s looking east. In the foreground is the Cosy Corner Pub at the corner of Greenside Street leading off to the left. To put this in context Greenside Street would be where the bus stop is now in front […]
This photo was taken in August 1966 outside the former Caldergrove House. Pictured is Bertha Waddell, owner of Caldergrove who also owned a children’s theatre company. A very successful one at that. A highly respected company, props were being loaded into a lorry ahead of a very special performance for none other…… than the Queen’s […]
Fresh from the success of running his Glasgow Road newsagents, Wullie Pate (pictured right) went into partnership with son in law, Geoff Krawczyk. The business partners opened another shop further westwards which people will remember for selling records and cards. It was also a place to buy toys, situated on the north side of Glasgow […]
Next, we go to Miller’s Laun tenements on the north side of Glasgow Road. Pictured at 196 Glasgow Road is Wullie Pate’s Newsagents. To the right is Jean Stewarts shop and the Chemist shop to the right again. This building was once approximately where the pavement is now in front of the Sports Centre. What’s […]
Pictured in the early 1980’s is the inside workshop of RG Barrett & Co. The business was located at 19 Church Street, in the garage at the end of the street. The painted block and brick walls, loads of machinery and equipment for auto repairs. According to my notes, this workshop was built in 1912 […]
Inside a pub next, rather than a shop. This very swish, modern looking pub is the Doon Inn on Broompark Road. Pictured in the 1970s. Recognise anybody?