A fantastic photo of the High Blantyre Cross, at Kirkton. Taken in the first decade of the 1900’s by photographer David Ritchie, this scene from outside the Church halls , looks across to two buildings, though only one of which still stands.
At the doorway of Logan’s Pub is the barman, this building now the Wee Gurkha Curry House. Beyond it, the background at the entrance to School Lane is Spiers Laun, a tenement building demolished around 1930. Today there’s a postbox and a little triangular park there.
Reflecting on how built up this is, I think our ancestors would have been surprised to ever imagine how green these areas are today. I wonder who the “wee yin” is with bare feet in the foreground. Could quite easily be the grandfather or great grandfather of somebody reading this today!
