The McLean Brothers stand with their workers at Priestfield Street, the large tree instantly recognisable (large even then in 1910). This photo, some 110 years old has had colour added by Scotland Colourised, the service available on facebook which will take any of your submitted black and white photos and colour them within 48 hours […]
Margaret Wilson shared this photo recently commenting that her dad John Morton was on the left and standing beside him is Peter Robertson. It was posted recently on this website. Now, thanks to further information sent from Alex Rochead, it can be confirmed that this Peter Robertson was indeed the man related to the Robertson […]
When Aidan Kelly recently emailed me about his relative James Kelly of Blantyre who used to own a pub, I immediately thought of James Kelly of Thornhill, Blantyre, the Celtic co-founder and Director and who owned Kelly’s Pub at the corner of Auchinraith Road. I’ve written plenty about that particular man and have photos of […]
Continuing putting colour back into old black and white Blantyre! This time we’re at Auchentibber, specifically at the former Inn, once located at the corner of Auchentibber Road and Parkneuk Road. A photo from around 1908, photographed by David Ritchie. In remarkable clarity, some colouring has been added showing how the pub may have looked […]
How’s this for a wonderful photo, which next year will incredibly be 100 years old! As promised, this is the start of many colourised old Blantyre photos, being shown exclusively on Blantyre Project. Frank William Benham is pictured outside his shop at the bottom of Stonefield Road in 1921. Whilst writing my Glasgow Road book, […]
To hundreds of kids throughout Blantyre, Cathy McInally (pictured) is a familiar face. This photo (i think) is from 1992 and Cathy had been playgroup leader at the Jack Horner playgroup in High Blantyre for some 21 years. This photo represents putting one family through TWO generations at the same playgroup. Pictured also is little […]
I promised you all that I had some great new colour photos to show. Facebook website, Scotland Colourised, will colour any of your black and white photos for free within 48 hours and a few weeks ago, I sent them a huge batch of photos from Blantyre Project. So here, for the first time, these […]