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A celebration takes place today as staff and customers mark 60 years of trading of the ‘Blantyre Miners Welfare Social Club’ at Calder Street, Blantyre. The club grows from strength to strength and as popular as ever with recent beautiful renovations to the function halls guaranteeing its continued success. Celebrations are ongoing today. […]
Photos of Robertson’s ginger factory are strangely few and far between, so how about this one for a cracker! This is from 1982, Robertsons of Springwells, on Glasgow Road. This long established business was employer of thousands of people throughout the decades, the site now belonging to Dunns Food & Drink. What’s your memories of […]
Smiths Grocery shop was located in the lower storey of a tall tenement named Robertsons Laun on Stonefield Road at Larkfield during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Mr and Mrs Smith ran the business. They had two sons, Robert and Jackie. Anyone living in Larkfield in the 1950’s would remember Jackie. He was allegedly quite the […]
A fantastic photo of the Village showing the former Schoolhouse on the upper slopes, taken around 1930. This was the final years for this building, which had doubled as a chapel/schoolroom for almost a hundred years. The whole area was changing fast, the upper plateau beside it, levelled and cleared of homes at Waterloo Row […]
Ah, the Blantyre Co-op on Glasgow Road. These photos from the late 1970’s show the shop on the south side of the street, n particular the Emporium, before it became The Clydesdale Bank. Who remembers shopping at this location? Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors […]
How’s this for a picture filled with nostalgia!? It’s Glasgow Road, the north side. Anybody fancy a roll and chips? Lightbody’s is pictured in 1977, a few years before they moved to Clydeview Shopping Centre. For a certain generation, this was THE place to get your rolls and pies. What’s your memories of Lightbody’s? Anybody […]
This is perhaps one of my most fearful memories as a child. Photographed here in the 1970’s is Biggins Dentist on the north side of Glasgow Road. I can remember him practically climbing up on the seat to get a good position to give leverage for an extraction, which thankfully for me only happened once! […]
Who remembers “Maddens” shop on Glasgow Road. Situated on the north side, the shop was located on the lower floor of a 2 storey tenement, next door to the Bethany Hall. Parking was never the best, but this was a popular, well known shop. What’s your memories of Maddens? Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly […]