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1765 – Crossbasket Tower
Crossbasket Tower, sketched by Paul Sandby in 1765
1793 – The Previous Blantyre Parish Church
High Blantyre Kirk
1793 Previous Blantyre Parish Church built (PV)
1794 – 1862 – To be uploaded soon
1863 – High Blantyre Parish Church demolished. New church built.
1863 Old Church at Kirkon Cross, in the Kirkyard (PV)
1863 Demolition of Kirk
1863 Church Engraving (PV)
1863 Interior of Kirk
1864 – 1868 – To be uploaded soon
1869 – High Blantyre Main Street
1869 Main Street oldest photo (PV)
1977 21st April
1870 – 1876 – To be uploaded soon
1877 – The Blantyre Pit Explosion
1877 Dixons mortuary
1877 Dixons Pit 2 Blantyre
1877 Dixons PIts Blantyre
1877 Pit Disaster Print (purchased by PV)
1877 Rescuers await their turn
1877 Nursing injured miners at Dixons after Pit Explosion.
1877 Pictorial World shared by A. Rochead
1877 Dixons Colliery 3 (PV)
1877 Dixons Explosion. Bringing up the dead
1877 Blantyre Explosion sketch
1877 Reading the dead
1877 Pit Disaster Print (purchased by PV)
1877 Calling for Volunteers to go down the burning pit (PV)
1877 High Blantyre
1877 three of the first rescuers
1877 Blantyre Pit Head
1877 Colliery Disaster Illustration
1877 Going down the shaft
1878 – 1879 – To be uploaded soon
1880 – just 3 years after the Pit explosion, High Blantyre was still coming to terms with loss of life. Also Douglas Street.
1880s or 90s David Maxwell Restaurant (PV)
Kirkton, Main Street 1880. Restored by PV
1892 / 2012 Douglas Street Merge (PV)
1881 – 1882 – To be uploaded soon
1883 – To be uploaded soon
1883 Blantyre Parish Halls expenditure
1884 – High Blantyre
1880s Main Street at Kirkton (PV)
1885 – 1889 – To be uploaded soon
1890 – Kirkton Cross, High Blantyre
1890s Kirkton Top Cross
1890s Kirkton Cross, High Blantyre
1890s full photo Kirkton Cross. By G Cook
1891 – To be uploaded soon
1892 – Douglas Street
1892 Douglas Street, HIgh Blantyre
1892 Douglas Street, HIgh Blantyre
1892 Church Halls being built, HIgh Blantyre
1892 Douglas Street, HIgh Blantyre
1893 – To be uploaded soon
1894 – Inside Blakelys Bar
1894 Inside Blakelys Bar
1895 – High Blantyre Main Street
1890s High Blantyre Main Street (PV)
1890s McKenzies Bakery at Main Street
1880s Main Street at Kirkton (PV)
1890s McKenzie Bakery at Main Street (PV)
1890’s High Blantyre Main Street (PV)
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