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I’m trying to work out what year this photo was. The story is the picture represents 40 years of the Jack Horner Playgroup being in High Blantyre. I can say Mary Carr from the butchers and Cllr Bert Thomson. I also see Cathy McInally at the back. To celebrate the event, pupils from John Ogilvie […]
Jim Cochrane has shared this photo recently which shows one of Duncan Brothers skip hire lorries. Duncan Brothers were based at 2 – 18 Glasgow Road at Springwells, the name ‘Duncan’ long associated with those addresses. I’ll be writing later in the year about all the properties and prominent families who lived on the North […]
Imagine this for a moment…..it’s 3rd September, 1939. The prime Minister has just declared War on Germany and like many people in the Country, Blantyre residents listening to the radio were fearful about what kind of war would be coming, what kind of scale it would be on and nervous about their loved ones going off […]
Warnock & Walker – were also known as Warnock, Walker & Co (Contractors). This was a former late 19th Century joinery business at High Blantyre formed in 1877. In July 1877, they were advertising for workers in their mill. According to Naismith’s Directory of 1879, it comprised of two formidable skilled tradesmen, namely Mr David […]
Further panoramic photos taken from the former Craighead Bing. Showing industrial areas around the bing before the Expressway cut through. These were taken in September 1979. Who can identify the business premises? These photos seen online for the first time here, also show the flattened area looking across the river to Bothwell.
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 […]