High Blantyre Photos

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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 Church Engraving (PV)

1863 Old Church at Kirkon Cross, in the Kirkyard (PV)

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 Pictorial World shared by A. Rochead

1877 Colliery Disaster Illustration

1877 Blantyre Explosion sketch

1877 High Blantyre

1877 three of the first rescuers

1877 Dixons PIts Blantyre

1877 Blantyre Pit Head

1877 Pit Disaster Print (purchased by PV)

1877 Going down the shaft

1877 Dixons Explosion. Bringing up the dead

1877 Dixons Colliery 3 (PV)

1877 Dixons Pit 2 Blantyre

1877 Rescuers await their turn

1877 Nursing injured miners at Dixons after Pit Explosion.

1877 Pit Disaster Print (purchased by PV)

1877 Dixons mortuary

1877 Reading the dead

1877 Calling for Volunteers to go down the burning pit (PV)

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.

1892 / 2012 Douglas Street Merge (PV)

1880s or 90s David Maxwell Restaurant (PV)

Kirkton, Main Street 1880. Restored by 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 Cross, High Blantyre

1890s Kirkton Top Cross

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

1890’s High Blantyre Main Street (PV)

1880s Main Street at Kirkton (PV)

1890s McKenzie Bakery at Main Street (PV)

1890s McKenzies Bakery at Main Street

1890s High Blantyre Main Street (PV)

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