Let me take you now to High Blantyre and specifically to Main Street. The corner you see sweeping off to the left is Cemetery Road, the shops facing out on to Main Street. The date is 1913. A young boy of around 10 years or so hangs on to the gas lamppost wondering what the photographer is doing standing in the middle of the road. Behind him at the corner is the Bank.

A lady, perhaps the postmistress stands outside the door of High Blantyre Post Office and beyond her on the right is Andrew Gilmour’s High Blantyre shop.

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Moyra Lindsay A bank? There’s a novelty!

Margaret Elma Griffin We lived in the old buildings on Cemetery Road the Post Office was. Still there late forties early fifties the Post Mistress was Mrs Darling there was a Phone box inside for the public to use only problem was everyone could hear your conversation!!

😆 The bank was by then a grocery shop

The Blantyre Project Thanks Margaret, was the grocery shop called “Taits” or was the nearby?

Margaret Elma Griffin Don’t know the name Tait’s l only knew the grocery shop as Jean McDades

Jackie MacDonald Hugh McDade. Add a story to this x

George Hay I remember the grocery shop and further up was a shop called Kiddywear.. The end of the block had a chip shop if I recall correctly.

Ann Higgins Crossar Yes there was a chip shop there in the mid to late 70’s – we used to go in after Eleanor Roxburghs dancing.

Brian Weaver Chip shop was at the far end of the block in the 1950s. Next door, my mum owned Kiddiwear. Next was Ian(?) Hobson, the butcher. Then there was the post office and the shop on the corner was the grocer’s if my memory serves me correctly.

Margaret Lindner I remember the shop on the corner was called Browns

Margaret Elma Griffin I remember the grocery shop was run by Jean McDade at one time

Maisie Whittaker Love seeing these old photos

Stephen Watson The street I was born in. ( a little later than this photo )

Bill Andrew Before the chip shop was Hobson’s Butchers. They still have 2 shops in Larkhall

Peter Mcsorley I remember the fonz stole my bike from out side the shop a grifter.was it the spar? Got my bike back my da choked him

Jean Maxwell The Grocery shop eventually became George Nelsons between the post office and Ian Hobsons

Jean Maxwell Forgot to say I worked in Nelsons and left in 1960

Jim Donnelly We stayed Cemetery Road when I was born

Sylvia Mclaughlin Many moons ago