Who remembers Willie Thomson’s Shop on Hunthill Road. Willie is pictured here (1960s?) outside the former shop. Willie was the son of Robert and lived for a long time up the stairs from the shop. He never married and approaching retirement when the shop was demolished, he eventually became the park-keeper for High Blantyre park.
Pictured here in the 1950’s is Young & Sons (coalmerchants of Blantyre), delivering to a building called Calderview on Hunthill Road. Calderview was a former building, which once stood on Hunthill Road at the corner of Stonefield Crescent. It had the address of 55, 56, 58, 60 and 62 Hunthill Road. There are no entries […]
I know a few people liked the previous photos of old cars parked in Asda, so here’s a couple more photos from 1982. The scene does look very familiar still, although the store logos have changed. I think I preferred seeing trees and green landscaped areas in the carpark back then. The grey, concrete and […]
Stephen Watson has sent in this wonderful photo. It’s High Blantyre Co-operative’s Shoe Department. Likely in the 1950’s, Stephen’s dad, James (Jim) Watson is the man pictured on the far right. My own grandfather John Duncan worked as a boot salesman for the Co-Op at one time, but I don’t see him in this photo. […]
What a difference 100 years makes! This is Station Road at the junction of Rosebank Avenue. A rather built up scene 100 years ago most notably with triple storey tenements and shops at Ulva Place with tenement homes stretching right down Station Road. The distinctive round former gatehouse, one of two in the foreground. This […]
In December 1980, there was still the question of what businesses would move into the new flat roofed shopping units at Larkfield. Owner, Jaquib Ali came under fire from residents nearby when he announced he was planning on letting to an arcade company. People were up in arms that gambling machines would be installed in […]
A Blantyre businessman told he District Council to “take a running jump” in December 1980 over a legal threat to his five Blantyre shops. This was the defiant response from Yaqub Ali to Hamilton District Council who warned him that legal action would be taken unless “Paving landscaping works” were carried out around the firm’ […]
A new Gingerbread Group (the outfit that helps one parent families) started up in Blantyre in late October 1980. The group met in the Elizabeth Scott Centre every Wednesday evening to give single mothers and fathers a helping hand. Experts were on call to give advice on welfare, housing and other solutions. A creche was […]