Gordon Cook recently brought this little former building to my attention. On the 1896 map, there’s a small building in the middle of fields beside the Clay Road, which would shortly after become Victoria Street. It’s suggested that this little building was either the dynamite magazine for the building of Blantyre’s Railways in the […]
Around 5pm on Sunday 24th June 2018 emergency services were called out to a major blaze just off Newhousemill Road (the back roads to Blantyre). An area at the back of Lodgehill Farm was ablaze with thick black smoke seen as far off as Calderglen Country Park and Low Blantyre. Three fire engines attended […]
I’m hoping to put more detail on to my article for the Central Bar. I have all the early history all charted, but would like to add more from 1969 onwards when the bar at 220 Glasgow Road became Fallon’s Bar. I know John was the owner and all about the 1976 fire and a […]
Remember the old Post office? This is a nice little photo showing the former building on Glasgow Road. This whole area about to hugely change with further redevelopment and a new shopping centre. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors said: Daniel Anderson Still think this […]
Ahead of officially fully opening next month, University of the West of Scotland (UWS) have invited staff and pupils along for a sneak preview of the new building which will soon see pupils transferred from the old Almada Street building. UWS has new University premises based at Hamilton Technology Park, which means a huge catchment […]
When I recently wrote about the history of Glasgow Road, I forgot to put up this photo. Taken in 1979, it shows the Priory Bar at the far end starting to be demolished. No real safety in those days. No hoarding. Not much signage. No road closure. Just guys shouting down to pedestrians, to “be […]
Thank you to Jim Cochrane for sharing these photos of 6 Watson Place, Blantyre. (the steel houses) Jim told me, “This is 6 Watson Place back Garden. Constructed in steel. My great GrandParents lived here From the 1930’s William and Catherine Cochrane. Then my Uncle Bill and Aunt Liz Cochrane untill the late 1990s.” Featuring Blantyre […]