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Some more photos now of the Traveller site that sprang up on Glasgow Road in 1981. Taken 40 years ago, the caravans are located near the top of John Street and at the top of Forrest Street. Vantage points are from across Glasgow Road in the foreground. Can anybody remember the caravans. Looks like the […]
The scene is strangely familiar, yet different and dated. This is the entrance to Asda Petrol Station in Blantyre taken from just before Logan Street in 1983. The ESSO Petrol Station had a central kiosk, long before the days of paying at the pump. Petrol looks to be 45.5p per litre and you’ll notice the […]
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 […]
It’s hard to believe this was 38 years ago, but it was! In 1983 this is Clydeview Shopping Centre on Glasgow Road. I can just about make out Clydesdale Electricals and a queue forming outside the Abbey National. I was never a fan of Clydeview shopping centre mainly due to the fact that so many […]
Ah, the changing face of Blantyre. Going back now to 1983 and on the north side of Glasgow Road, these pictures show the newly built St Andrews Church. Located at the corner of Church Street and Elm Street junctions of Glasgow Road, these photos were taken not long after the building was constructed. The grassy, […]
There’s something still very familiar about these next 2 photographs. Despite being taken in 1985, some 36 years ago, well before the age of Google Maps. Devlin Grove looks new and even then , some of the units at Clydeview Shopping Centre had their shutters down, available to let. The soft landscaping planted after the […]
These photos are inside and outside of Russo’s Grocers at 156 Glasgow Road, Blantyre. Taken on 21st September 1981, they show the last days of trading, the shop sparsely stocked as everything got sold off. What a shame to see the end of businesses like this and indeed the tenements themselves which had accommodated traders […]