Another brilliant old photo of Glasgow Road. This looks eastwards towards Hamilton and was taken from the end of Merry’s Rows (now Elm Street). Off to the far left is Clark Street, and beyond the tram, leading off to the left is Forrest Street then Grants Buildings with the double canopy of Gilmours shops. Behind […]
When I saw this little piece of Blantyre nostalgia come up for auction, I just knew it was something I’d need to bid for. It was an online auction, and I won at an acceptable fairly low price! So, I’m now the owner of “Andrew Little’s Bakery ink stamp.” This handheld wooden stamp, has a […]
Saturday 2nd September 1899, saw the official opening of Abbeygreen, the Rev Burleigh’s new manse in Church Street, Blantyre. Abbeygreen was a former large manse house built behind halls of the same name. Constructed in 1899, the name came from the ministers birth town. When this large house was built, Glasgow Road was still developing, […]
We’re into some real old stories now about Blantyre, which hopefully you haven’t heard before. On the evening of Saturday 10th August 1901, shortly after seven o’clock, an alarming carriage accident happened in Stonefield, Blantyre, causing considerable excitement. A brake with three horses, which belongs to Mr George McLelland, carriage hirer of Burnbank, was plying […]
On Tuesday 29th July 1902, play during the school holidays went terribly wrong when several children were seriously injured at Craighead Rows, Blantyre. That Summers evening workmen were making some repairs and had been working with tar. Barrels of Tar lay close to the Criaghead Rows, (miners homes, just off Glasgow Road). When the men […]
More stories from Auld Blantyre, which I hope you’re hearing for the first time. 120 years ago, the sight of a motorcar was indeed a rare thing. Even more so if one was travelling through a small mining village like Blantyre. On Monday 19th October 1902 a sensation was felt when a motorcar unexpectedly passed […]
In August 1904 a local newspaper reported that public clocks in Blantyre were few and far between. In fact, people had to wholly rely upon the solitary clock face on Glasgow Road. This was a reference to the Livingstone Memorial U.F Church and its four dials which could be seen a long way off in […]