A previously unseen photo, a first online of the former Calderwood Castle. Taken by photographer David Ritchie, the Castle is photographed from the River Calder, the trees in this photo on either side located on either side of the river. The photo dates from 1905 or so, around a time just after the Co-Operative Society […]
Some promotional photos for Crossbasket, at High Blantyre. Worth sharing here. It’s easy to see from these great images how Crossbasket Castle is Blantyre’s most luxurious building. With parts of this building half a Millennium old, the renovation over the last decade has protected this building, perhaps even for a further half millennium. Just stunning!
A brand new bakery at Auchinraith Road, Blantyre was opened on Saturday 15th October 1904. After posting recently about an accident on the chimney, and seeing all the comments from people who remember the building, I thought I’d post more about….. the opening of the Blantyre Co-Operative Society Bakery. The bakery was erected by members […]
For those who haven’t been to the David Livingstone Birthplace grounds for a while, you may be interested in these recent photos which show the nice lighting installed throughout the grounds. A sight only seen after dusk, the new lights line the paths at their edges and above them, with the Pavilion buildings also brightly […]
This previously unseen photo of Shuttle Row, was taken likely in the 1930’s and featured on an early postcard for the centre. Taken not long after the building became a museum, it shows the renovated building with new stone steps leading to the lower part and a new stone wall, in the location where formerly […]
A fantastic, relatively recent photo by Blantyre Drone Works shows well, how the large vacant plot of land, once occupied by the former St Joseph’s Primary School has now been used and built upon. This is of course the new state of the art Blantyre Care Hub, with its various new buildings, homes, gardens and […]
Here’s a photo which hopefully you haven’t seen before. May stir up some memories? Who remembers Eddie Collins Bakery? The building was located at Larkfield near the Bing, set back off Broompark Road. To put this in context, the footpath you see in the foreground would now be the front entrance of the existing Carrigans […]