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Next we go to Millers Laun, the former tenements between Clark Street and John Street. Staying with our theme this week of going inside some of these old shops, we enter the door of 156 Glasgow Road on the north side. This is Amerigo ‘Rigo’ Russo’s grocers shop, pictured on 21st September 1981, just before […]
I wonder what the miners would have made of this? Built on the site of the former Dixon’s Colliery Number 2 at High Blantyre, the modern University of the West of Scotland is by far Blantyre’s most expensive building. Powered entirely by renewable wind energy from the turbines on Blantyre Muir, the University at Hamilton […]
An extract from newspapers with some news from November 1967. Five year old John Allan of Camelon Crescent was knocked down by a car near his home on the first Sunday of November 1967. He was taken to Hairmyres Hospital with bruises to his head, hand and knee but thankfully his injuries were not too […]
Jumping next to the first week of November 1967, here’s a roundup of some of the stories that made the Blantyre newspapers. A good little snapshot of what was happening that week, some 53 years ago. Keeping Out Traffic Steps were taken to ensure School Lane at High Blantyre was as traffic free as possible. […]
With thanks to Dave Barry for sending this over a few months ago. The following report, of a society wedding, appeared in the Hamilton Herald and Lanarkshire Weekly News, Saturday 03 June 1905. The bride, Margaret McCarey, was from the McCarey pawnbroking family in Holytown and she was niece of Hugh Fegan, the noted […]
Here in the UK, we’ve all grown up with the concept of moving the clocks forward in March by an hour as British Summer Time starts. Just as much as we take for granted it needs to move back an hour in October. That whole concept has its roots back in pre WW1 years. British […]
By Summer 1980, the ASDA store and the western side of the shopping centre had been almost built. With earlier acquisition of many houses on the lower part of Craig Street taken by compulsory purchase order then subsequently demolished, there was a huge expanse in the form of a open square carved into the landscape. […]
Let’s stick with the Glasgow Road Redevelopment for now. If ever there was a photo showing the transition of Glasgow Road , its this one…. nicely showing the old and the new alongside each other! This is Springtime 1980 and as Clydeview Shopping Centre and Asda rise out the ground on the south side of […]