With the Herald Clock now signed over to us, today we started the actual work to save the historic artefact at David Livingstone Centre. The stone clock, weighing over a third of a tonne, a gift to the centre in 1941 was due to be demolished, but we stepped in during recent weeks with […]
With thanks to Bernadette Watt who shared these pictures. Her brother Brian Hughes built this Bogey for his delighted grandkids. It’s great to see a tradition like this coming back. This looks a particularly lovely bogey, built with care and love. Who all had a bogey in childhood then?! Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly […]
I hope you like this 3 minute video I pulled together representing Blantyre in the 1940’s. A collection of video and photos, I hope it captures the essence of 1940’s life. With forthcoming exhibitions, I’ve decided I’m going to do many more of these short videos, featuring different decades of the 19th and 20th Century. […]
The “Welcome to Blantyre” sign at the north western end of Glasgow Road was refurbished in April 2013 for the bi-centenary of David Livingstone’s birth. Unfortunately the designers made a mistake in the sign (although not many people notice it). The picture of David Livingstone is meant to be superimposed on a map of Africa as seen in […]
The refurbished ‘Welcome to Blantyre’ sign is positioned at the north western end of Glasgow Road and was initiated by Brian Charlton, chairman of the nearby Priory Bridge Residents Association. Brian noticed that the frame of the old sign dating back to the 1950s was still in situ and was in reasonable condition although the […]
How iconic this photo is. From 2000, it’s the end of the blue Oval pool not far from the Station Road entrance to Stonefield Public Park. Some happy memories in warm summers playing in that water as a child. Now all gone. What’s your memories of this pool and fountain? Photo: Veverka collection Featuring Blantyre Project […]
When the day of the demolition of the David Livingstone Memorial Bridge arrived in May 1999, it was found after cutting the main supports that the contractors could not pull it fully down. The attempt was abandoned and the next day further acetylene burning tools arrived to weaken the bridge sufficiently into smaller sections […]
Great photos from May 1999 taken by Neil Gordon as the David Livingstone Memorial Bridge was pulled down, into the River Clyde. This bridge, thought to have been poorly built had only lasted half the time of the previous. A third pedestrian bridge now crosses the River Clyde at the former Blantyre works area.