1910 Sawmill window marked in blue
Highlighted in blue on this 1910 map, is a little window in High Blantyre, just off Main Street within Adams Sawmills. Strange subject perhaps for an article, but this has a nice story attached to it in future years.
By the 1960s, the sawmills had a different use. Fellow Blantyre history enthusiast Gordon Cook told me, “It marks the position of a second storey window in the sawmill, which overlooked the boy’s playground. In the early sixties the sawmill was used by a company to store soft drinks and frozen juice, called JUBBLY (see photo attached). We called it the ‘jubbly factory’. My big brother worked there, it was his
A Jubbly Orange drink. Remember?
first job, and at playtime, I was made very popular as he threw down jubblys for me and my pals out of this window.”