A nice discussed opened up with loads of memories from the 1970s about Glasgow Road and the Stepek Shop
1975 Stepek at Glasgow Road
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Carol Crombie Was this approx the top of what is now John Street
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Stephen Speirs Thought it was at the station road/Main Street junction? Where barbers and chip shop is now? Could be wrong of course
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Thomas Barrett Yea the top of john st before they moved to the corner of station red.
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John Krawczyk Yip John street and then moved to corner of Station rd next to Jimmy Cleary barbers etc
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Susan Clelland Lol got my first tv from stepek the robbing feckers
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Sadie Dolan Also remember it across from Broadway top station rd.
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Garry Lee Who can remember the TV advert Glens,Hutchisons, Robertsons & Stepek😀
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Bobby Dunsmuir Corner of John street
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Marian Maguire Yes unfortunately worked for Stepek, worst experience ever. To this day I wouldn’t buy a Hoover bag from them ( if they were still operating) but yes remember Blantyre looking like this your great grandparents lived in Clark Street on the same side as Stepek.
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Diane Hannah Grant I remember this
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Mary Meekat Blooming eck! That name takes me back! xx
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Robert McLeod-Wolohan Yes i remember it very well, got a few items from there lol
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Ellenor Mcbride Yip I can
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Liz McGuire Oh memories got my first radio cassette player and radio all in one unit thought wee were toffs lol jock richardson for sausage and into blacks baker for our rolls
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John Allan yip regals shop just along
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Betty Davies Worked in it 1971
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Margaret Duncan We lived in John Street and always got our Rolls in Blacks. When I was 14 I worked in McDonald’s Grocer much further along the road – we got our weekly shop there – the boy had a bike with a big basket at the front.
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John Allan was there no a bakers round the back
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Lorraine Stokes Me to Sadie lol wee are getting old hen X
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Isobel Powell yes i remember it well,i was born and brought up in Blantyre i lived in Llivingstone Crescent ,when i got married we bought our 1st house in Craig Street and bought items from Stepek they were the day……..
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Stephen Barrett My son john can’t remember ( to young ) . But his gran ann Barrett was the manageress of that shop for years.
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Irene Dickman Bought my first video recorder from there.
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Jean Gibson Remember you did not buy your tv but rented it!
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Marie Rooney Where I bought my first music centre with my wages from the asda!
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Bobby Jamieson Stepek was a big concern in the whole of Lanarkshire
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Emma Trevethan Remember it well bought a few things there in my time. …
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Jean MacKie Yes I do it was mclenachn before stepek then stepek moved to top of station road Blantyre x
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Stephen Allan When did Stepek move to corner of Glasgow Road and Station Road? I only remember it being there.
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Pauline Wolohan OMG, i remember wen the street was like that,remember goin n2 Stepek wi my Gran 2 pay her account each wk,thn ther was Templetons store wer u got ur wkly shop frm,oh the memories.
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Gerry Walker Was Templetons not the old picture house?
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Archie Peat Stepeks, corner of John Street and Glasgow Road. !! Part of the tectonic shift in Blantyre culture,! First Angies Cafe next to Jock Richardsons Butchers, first cafe in Blantyre to have a jukebox. Second The Broadway to have Rock and Roll concerts on a Sunday night and third Stepeks to sell records etc. Those were the days ( Late 1950s )
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Margo Haughen Rented our first tv there…and bought it for£50 several years later!!
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Arlene McWilliam Green Pay the telly at Stepek, pay the papers at Pate’s, get the butcher meat from Peter Craigs and the rolls from Littles and that was my Thursday mornings out with my mum before I started school