Accounts for Blantyre Roads, 1859
Funding for Blantyre’s roads being repaired and upgraded has ALWAYS been a hot topic! Setting a budget and sticking to it was just as important in Victorian times as […]
Category Archives: Blantyre Documents
George Paterson Coaches
An advert from the 1970s for George Paterson Coaches and Mini bus hire. Based at Allanshaw Industrial Estate, Hamilton, they also had a depot in Blantyre. George, a pleasant, […]
Calder Cabs
Can anybody tell me anything about Calder Cabs? This advert from 1967 states they were there at 27 Stonefield Road. Was this near the corner of Calder Street? Who ran […]
Renewed for next 10 years
I’ve renewed the www.blantyreproject.com domain for the next 10 years….meaning the Blantyre Project website will be permanently online at least until Summer 2028! I’ll renew it another 10 years then […]
Andrew Gilmour’s Bananas
Love this advert! It’s for Andrew Gilmour’s former shop on Glasgow Road from around the 1910s. The advert provides more information on “Bananas” perhaps seen rarely in local grocers even […]
1987 Highland Games Poster
My friend Alex Rochead showed me this photo, kindly sent to him from Sandy Wilkie. It is of course a poster for the much remembered, Blantyre Highland Games. A great […]
1973 J&A Smith Advert
Look at what you could buy in Broompark Road in 1973! Who remembers Smiths Garage ? Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others […]
Blantyre Telegraph Magazine
My BIG news seems to be out. So here goes…. I’m launching Blantyre’s very own Glossy Magazine! I decided against a Blantyre annual after all, settling for a quarterly full […]
1773 No Main Street
Looking at the Charles Ross 1773 map of Blantyre, many of the names shown are familiar, but I noticed “Lithrig” which looks to be an early adaptation of Letterick. […]