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In Springtime 1909, the road authorities as an experiment decided to relay Glasgow Road with a new road surface. These were the days before tar-macadam surfaces and Blantyre’s main thoroughfare was already partially cobbled in places due to tramlanes laid only a few years earlier. This however, left parts of the road which were “unmade” […]
In early November 1909, Mr McCall raised the topic of the condition of Craig Street at a Blantyre Parish Council meeting. In particular he wanted the street to be properly “made”, rather than left as a rough track. By 1909, houses on either side the northern end of Craig Street had been built near its […]
Next, a photo from 44 years ago. (How time flies!). This is Glasgow Road with Herbertson Street leading off to the left. The old Co-Op building is prominent as is Wheels, the motorbike shop. A young generation of Blantyre youths will certainly find this picture difficult to comprehend seeing just how different Blantyre’s main thoroughfare […]
How about this for an amazing photo! This is Main Street in High Blanyre, photographed from the middle of the road at High Blantyre Cross looking east down Main Street. What’s remarkable about this 1890’s photo is everything you see in this picture is no longer here. The people. The fire hydrant, the old Kirk […]
Jackson Street was a small dead end street during the 20th Century which developed from a field boundary of the former Springwell Farm. Branching off to the South of Glasgow Road it was once suggested to me that the street may have taken its name from former Councilor Jackson of Bardykes, who did so much […]
Let’s go the 1930’s next…a photo showing Victoria Street in Blantyre. Looking South, the photo is taken from outside the former Health Institute. The homes in the Crescents were fairly new, no more than a decade old and the county council established a popular playpark pictured here on the left. Children and prams play on […]
This postcard, I believe dates from the early 1900’s and is likely more than 110 years old. Featuring the bottom of Stonefield Road, you can just see a hint of Calder Street leading off to the right. This is an interesting area I hope to write about in detail some day. There’s a lot to […]