Who remembers David Fisher’s yard on Glasgow Road? Pictured here in 1977 beside former Clyde Cottage, this was situated at the corner of Stonefield Road and Glasgow Road. You can just about see the gable of Mickey’s Cafe de Royal on the right. A busy action shot at the bottom of Stonefield Road, taken in […]
Two photos from 1984. The scene is familiar, although the buildings in that time are new. This cluster of modern buildings helped shape Glasgow Road as we know it today. The 599 Club, St Andrews Church, Clydeview Shopping Centre, the Sports Centre and Devlin Grove, all built within a couple of years of each other. […]
There’s a few things in this photo that allow it to be dated. I believe its from 1988. The 599 Social Club sign is still on the brick building beside Elm Street and there’s a for sales sign up, before it became Cobblers or the flats. The Social Club ended in 1988. More telling, further […]
This Church was constructed in Glasgow Road in 1905, the same year as the nearby St Josephs Church. Those two buildings must have changed the face of the street considerably that year. The Church belonged to Blantyre Primitive Methodist Church which at first at held their services in Dixon’s Hall on Stonefield Road. The building […]
A brilliant photo next from 1981. Combining the old and new buildings on Glasgow Road. A completed, modern shopping centre stands facing boarded up tenements awaiting demolition. The sports centre construction taking place outwith the picture to the right. This rare picture shows the existing footpath still intact on the north side of the road […]
Here’s the full photo of Glasgow Road looking east at the top of John Street. Taken in 1981 can anybody tell me what the green and white caravan was?
Hope you’re enjoying all these new “old” photos of Blantyre’s 1970s and 80s redevelopment. Got loads more to show and of course I’ll be posting here all about the north side of the road throughout 2020. What about this photo then? What a cracker. It’s from 1981 and taken from the former traffic island at […]
This photo can be dated to 1981. It is of course an emerging new Glasgow Road facing west. Some sweeping changes taking place. The St Andrews Church had just been built on the site of the former Stonefield Parish Church but the windows were still not in, boarded up, the construction ongoing. Various tenements on […]