Frosty Joe’s
First class Ice Cream Parlour It’s been many years since Glasgow Road had a dedicated Ice Cream Parlour, but the wait is now over, with the arrival of “Frosty Joe’s!” […]
Category Archives: Blantyre Glasgow Road
1970s Glasgow Road
Glasgow Road looking eastwards during the 1970s. Whats your memories of this section of the road? Stepek on the corner, before they moved westwards to the corner of Station Road. […]
Glasgow Road looking west
I’ll need to look out the better photo of this, but here is Glasgow Road looking west. Taken around the late 60’s or early 1970’s, Stonefield Parish Church is […]
Clydeview Shopping Centre – plans
Plans – Phase 2 A few people have asked what the new layout for Clydeview Shopping centre’s rebuild will look like. Attached is the planning drawing lifted from South Lanarkshire […]
Clydeview East – End of an Era
Contractors have as of Saturday 14th July 2018, entirely screened off the Eastern block of the Clydeview Shopping Centre, in preparation for forthcoming demolition. As of this week, the 9 […]
Fifteen Hurt in Bus Crash, 1967
13 women and 2 men were injured in early 1967 one Friday when a minibus taking workers home from a factory in East Kilbride, collided with a double decker […]
1989 Glasgow Road
A rare and unusual wintry photograph of Glasgow Road, looking West, taken in 1989. The vantage point appears to be the David Livingstone Church Tower and I suspect this photo […]
Glasgow Road South – New Book launched!
With so much going on personally in April, I’ve decided against a book launch in a local venue and just going to quietly launch my exciting new book, here now […]
Glasgow Road Bus Drag Race
In Hamilton Sheriff Court at the end of June 1925, two bus drivers were prosecuted for alleged reckless driving, exceeding the speed limit, and running abreast —all to the […]