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How about a spooky story next?! This is in two parts, the short version (taken from a much larger paper about the Lords Blantyre). First part today, continued tomorrow. Our tale is set in Blantyre 357 years ago….. BLANTYRE PRIORY – HAUNTED BY THE OLD MONKS? While living at his mansion house in Cardonald […]
We’re lucky to have a few good photos of the completed brick built Sports Centre and landscaped Public Park in the days before Google Earth and Satellite imagery. These photos from 1985 show the new building to good effect alongside Stonefield Public Park. It’s a good reminder to show how fast nature can take hold. […]
Hope you like these excellent photos! From 1980, this is the western side of Clydeview Shopping Centre. Pictured from the public park looking across Glasgow Road, 40 years ago this Summer this initial part of the building had already been constructed alongside the new ASDA store. What we’re looking at built in block is now […]
Staying with the subject of Asda for now. Back to 1980 as ASDA superstore and warehouse rises out the ground that springtime and summer. This is on the site of the former Ness’s School and infant school at the corner of Glasgow Road and Victoria Street. In one of the photos at the back, you […]
By 1984, the north side of Glasgow Road had changed completely. The Sports Centre had opened up and in the background Devlin Grove also had been built. The opposing view over to the Clydeview Shopping Centre and ASDA was most different too. It would have all seemed very different for anybody who had been away […]
How strangely familiar, yet different. This is the scene going back 37 years at Clydeview Shopping Centre at the Asda Cafe. The old orange signage putting some nostalgia into the photo, as is the view across to a park, which even then in 1983 was still nicely kept. It was a time when the brick […]
Taken from the Bothwell side of the River Clyde, this photo (i think) dates from the 1940’s and looks over to Blantyre to Shuttle Row. This is the lower part of that building (the taller 3 storey part out the photo to the right). This is the back of the building and you can just […]
Looking through some more photos. This one is a cracker! Nice and clear and detailed and is of course, the David Livingstone Centre. Perhaps taken in the 1940’s, judging by the car and styles. Now rebranded as David Livingstone Birthplace and currently undergoing renovation, I’m looking forward to this re-opening and once again being a […]
James (Hamish) Sneddon Dow recently shared these wonderful snippets. A few comments of social history, that sites like ours love to capture! He commented, “My father, Malcolm Dow, used to take me as a treat to the Priory Baths which were looked after by my great uncle, George Dow of Springwells. At that time we […]