The entire, excellent photo of Stonefield Independent Co-op taken nearly 100 years ago on the south side of Glasgow Road. The butchers shop is shown and beyond it, in the 2 storey building dating from 1891, are other co-op departments. This is 241 Glasgow Road and the lower shop in this building next to the […]
Even in the vilest weather passengers on buses can travel between Cambuslang and Blantyre in comparative comfort with little chance of catching pneumonia, but for passengers 100 years ago, it was a very different case! For people especially in Winter it was a miserable experience being on a busy tram ‘caur’. During mid day […]
351 Glasgow Road in 1979 , adjacent to the start of Cloudhowe Terrace, once had a large nursery at the back of it. The former Bowie’s Nursery was the subject of much contention in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Hamilton District Council and an Edinburgh Housing Association got into a right pickle when attempting […]
By Blantyre Telegraph: So, our suspicions this week have proven correct. ASDA will not be rebuilding Clydeview Shopping Centre or building large new units. (anytime soon) Following our concerns this week seeing paths and kerbs being laid with no building foundations constructed and seeing how evasive ASDA was being in describing their plans, we decided […]
A pall of smoke hung over Lanarkshire on the afternoon of Monday 3rd September 1979. Upon investigation it was found that the St Andrews’s Church (formerly Stonefield Parish Church) on Glasgow Road was on fire. The fire representing the latest incident in a string of bad luck for this church. As brave firemen worked hard […]
In September 1979, Hamilton District Council gave their thumbs up for plans to go ahead and make Blantyre beautiful. To remove the demolition scar on Blantyre, trees, bushes and grass was to be planted in many separate areas. One prominent area was to be the Stonefield Public Park, immediately across from the proposed shopping centre […]
By the start of June 1979, the first ‘positive’ visible signs on site of the multi million pound venture between ASDA and Hamilton District Council was apparent. Phrases like “Blantyre bomb site”, “open crater” and “dereliction beyond belief” were to be a thing of the past, as contractors confirmed that almost all of the […]
My history colleague and friend Gordon Cook, kindly provides today’s article which is on the humble beginnings of the Livingstone Memorial Church. Accompanying the words is a lovely colourised postcard from around 1904, showing the church in all its glory and of course the much narrower Glasgow Road. Gordon writes, “With the rapid increase […]
 | Lindsay Paterson on Glasgow Road, 1925 |
 | Eric Flack on Soldiers at the Dookit, 1916 |
 | Archie simm on The Houldsworth Watch |
