By the turn of the Millennium as these 2002 photos show, St Joseph’s Primary School on Glasgow Road had seen better days. It is little wonder from these photos that plans were already then foot to discuss building a new school. The new school was built in 2010, opening in October that year although snagging […]
Plans for multi sports stadium near Priory Bridge were dramatically halted in Summer 1980 when residents of Priory Bridge formed a petition to obstruct the development. With the speedway at Springwells set to close, a new location had to be found and the private site at Bardykes owned by Francis Doonin, just off the road […]
Hard to believe that this large building at the corner of Clydeview Shopping Centre at Victoria Street junction sat for over 12 years unoccupied and derelict. The former Caspers Nightclub sign facing out all that Glasgow Road traffic. That’s a sign I wish I’d tried to salvage. When writing my book, “Glasgow Road South: The […]
In June 1979, a story appeared in the Hamilton Advertiser for the first time announcing that Hamilton District Council were thinking of creating a new cemetery beside the EK Expressway. However, at that time, the land still had to be bought from Strathclyde Regional Council. By January 1980, land had been secured on the former Priestfield […]
Blantyre 2001 – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Going back 18 years, with a 14 minute video of Blantyre. Some nostaligc scenes of a town much in need of redevelopment. Has anything changed?
Cath McInally, pictured top left very recently gave me a copy of some of her photos of 47 years of running the nursery in High Blantyre. I’m looking for some help with a few of them, trying to date them, something which should be possible by knowing who the kids are. Do you recognise anybody […]
Pictured in its final years in 2001 is Blantyre Health Centre. The Health Institute building on Blantyre’s Victoria Street was a vital building to the welfare of Blantyre people. Opened on 12th October 1928, it was initially a children’s clinic with a grand title of “The Public Health Institute and Children’s Welfare Centre”. Later however, […]
A rare and unique African manuscript with the only handwritten eyewitness account of Livingstone’s death has been published online at the end of April 2019 by Livingstone Online, a digital resource dedicated to the famous explorer. Livingstone was one of the most famous explorers of Africa in his day. In 1855, he became the first European […]