Hard to believe, but these photos are now 41 years old. Taken in September 1980, it shows the former chimney at Blantyeferme colliery and brickworks, as contractors rolled in to flatten more of the bings and surrounding fields. It’s quite hard to put the location in context, the chimney now long demolished, so I’ve attached a photo of the road at Haughhead as if you’re coming towards Blantyre which shows exactly where the chimney was.
Following the flattening of the fields and bing, the area hasn’t changed much in several decades.