Village Photos 1950s

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1950 – Glasgow Road. David Livingstone Centre. Fire at Walkers Flour Mill, Village.

1950 Inspecting David Livingstone Centre

1950 Blantyre Weir, river runs dry

1950 New line for David Livingstone Memorial Bridge

1950s DLC Playpark

1950s DLC Playpark

1950 African Rain Shelter

1950s Livingstone Centre

1950s DLC Playpark

1950 Probing Livingstone Bridge foundations

1950 Craighead Viaduct

1950 Blantyre weir dry

1950 Glasgow Road

1950 Flour Mill fire. Shared by G Cook

1951 – To be uploaded soon
1952 – Opening the David Livingstone Memorial Bridge

1952 Nazarene Church

1952 Construction of Livingstone Memorial Bridge

1952 Opening the Suspension Bridge at Blantyre (PV)

1953 – Blantyre Weir

1950s View of Blantyre Weir

1950s Herbertson Street (Unseen GC)

1954 – To be Uploaded soon

1954 Craighead Railway

1977 21st April

1955 – David Livingstone new bridge had been opened for 3 years. Robertson’s of Springwells photo. Blantyre Public Park. Salvation Army Citadel at Forrest Street. Bairds Rows, Blantyre.

1955 Oil Works at the Bottom of Forrest Street

1950s David Livingstone Aerial photo

1955 Bairds Rows, Low Blantyre

1955 Bairds Rows, Low Blantyre

Robertsons pictured mid 50s

1955 Bairds Rows, Low Blantyre

1955 Bairds Rows, Low Blantyre

Pals at the river Clyde.

c Mid 1950s Blantyre Public Park sent in by Mary Peat DeSarno

1955 Chalmers Building, Glasgow Road

1950s David Livingstone Centre from the Livingstone Memorial Bridge (PV)

1955 David Livingstone Centre

David Livingstone Memorial Bridge c 1955

1955 Salvation Army Citadel, Blantyre, top of Forrest Street

1955 8 Clyde Street Prefabs

1956 – To be uploaded soon.
1957 – Bairds Rows, Low Blantyre

Bairds Rows by Anthony Smith

1977 21st April

1958 – Inspecting Livingstone’s Bible. Ford Car at Cowan Wilson Avenue. Livingstone Gallery.

1958 Livingstone dark Gallery

1958 Smith family at 93 Craighead Rows

1950s Ford Car outside 13 Cowan Wilson Avenue. Shared by J Graham

1958 Craighead Viaduct Pete & Anthony Smith

1958 Inspecting Livingstone’s bible

1959 – David Livingstone Birthroom, Livingstone Memorial Shrine

1959 Livingstone Memorial Shrine

1950s or 1960s David Livingstone Centre

1959 Train in September, Low Blantyre

1959 Knightswood Terrace Park

1959 September. Train

1959 David Livingstone Birthroom, Shuttle Row

1959 Village Gatehouses, Station Road

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