This brilliant old photo shows the former miner’s homes at Merrys Rows, Low Blantyre. These were located where Elm Street is today. Their proximity to Auchinraith Pit made them particularly susceptible to subsidence and as you can see, there are massive cracks, in what was generally considered housing of a poor standard. Makes me wonder […]
In 1967 private house builder Wimpey Homes had their plans scuppered when planning permission was refused to build homes at Larkfield, Wheatlands and at Flemington. In July that year, they accused the Country Council of not zoning enough land for private homes, instead only focusing on land for their own public housing. A response from […]
Who remembers David Fisher’s yard on Glasgow Road? Pictured here in 1977 beside former Clyde Cottage, this was situated at the corner of Stonefield Road and Glasgow Road. You can just about see the gable of Mickey’s Cafe de Royal on the right. A busy action shot at the bottom of Stonefield Road, taken in […]
A lovely photo of the “Counting House” or also known as “The Wages Building”, at Blantyre Village Works, near the David Livingstone Centre. Likely taken in the 1970’s, this Summer scene looks idyllic with what is certainly a very distinctive and unique building for Blantyre. Originally part of a longer building, this is the part […]
This photo is from 1984. Pictured is Devlin Grove on Glasgow Road. The Council’s brand new sheltered home facility was built in this location to fill the large space that had been created from the tenement removal. It was much needed in Blantyre and designed to fit in with the modern, opposing new shopping centre. […]
Who remembers the IMO carwash at the top of Forrest Street? I’m struggling to work out when this was built, but looking at the lack of growth and trees in this photo and the fact carwash was only 70p, it’s probably older than I thought. IMO to this day still operates through a Network of […]
This Church was constructed in Glasgow Road in 1905, the same year as the nearby St Josephs Church. Those two buildings must have changed the face of the street considerably that year. The Church belonged to Blantyre Primitive Methodist Church which at first at held their services in Dixon’s Hall on Stonefield Road. The building […]