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With thanks to Jenny Day for providing this photo. The berry pickers at Boathouse, Blantyre at the edge of the River Clyde…. including some of Jenny Day’s family. Back row 3rd in, Jessie, Arch Brown with arms folded, unknown male, Robina, front row, Katie, seated, Christina, Jenny’s Grandmother Jessie and Jeannie. This would make the […]
A few weeks ago after some heavy rain, a sinkhole appeared not from the side of the River Clyde at Blantyreferme. At Boat Jocks to be precise in an area officially known as Boatland. The discovery was made by Ian Turner, who shared these photos with kind thanks. When it first appeared it was full […]
A photo from the turn of the 20th Century, showing Barnhill, Blantyre. Putting this in context, it looks northwards towards the cottage hospital. To the right out the photo would be the Barnhill Tavern (the Hoolets). The only building still standing is the whitewashed building to the right, jutting out into the road at an oblique […]
Ah, the changing face of Blantyre. Going back now to 1983 and on the north side of Glasgow Road, these pictures show the newly built St Andrews Church. Located at the corner of Church Street and Elm Street junctions of Glasgow Road, these photos were taken not long after the building was constructed. The grassy, […]
Another look at former Greenhall House. This photo I believe dates back to the 1920s and you can see just how small the surrounding trees are. The house doesn’t yet have the distinctive ivy cladding it in the 1940s. This would today have been at the car park in Greenhall Park, the house on multi […]
On Thursday 14th November 1912, a fire took hold of a building at Thornhill Avenue (The Dandy), Blantyre. The unfortunate house was Priory House and when fire was observed around two o’clock that afternoon. Priory House at that time belonged and was tenanted to Mr John P. M’Caffrie, a spirit merchant who owned a pub […]
On 17th January 1913, a reader of the Scotsman Newspaper came up with a good idea. Why not buy the dilapidated birthplace house of David Livingstone at Shuttle Row and turn it into a museum about the great Explorer! It was a fanciful idea but one that planted the seed of such a wonderful idea, […]