Going back 100 years on Station Road and how things have changed here. Things looked very rural heading down to the bottom of the road. The former gatehouse on the left on the western side of the road marking the start of Blantyre Works Village. Way down in the distance, the walls of Blantyre Lodge […]
Standing at the corner of Broompark Road near the crossroads at Stonefield Road/Crescent. This is 23rd April 1977 and pictured is the site then proposed for the current Larkfield Community Hall. The Bing was still being levelled. In the background midway down Stonefield Road you can see the partial steeple of the Anderson Church, which […]
These three photos look over to the former Colliery Bing at Larkfield. Taken on 21stApril 1977 from Broompark Road, you can see the Bing still has to be levelled in the background. The Bing quite literally spilled down the sides of Eddie Collins shop, built in front of an older building. These photos may not […]
After the initial shine of a glitzy opening of Blantyre ASDA in October 1980, the mood turned a little sour for residents fast becoming shocked at the volume of traffic in Blantyre. That certainly was the view of Councillor Malcolm Waugh who claimed the arrival of ASDA had brought traffic chaos into Blantyre. His complaint […]
I’m not entirely sure but I think this is the Railway Bridge on Whistleberry Road. There’s no location marked on this photo although the date is known as 1985. The other photo with the car, again from the same year is definitely Whistleberry Road, the oil tank in the background still there today. What can […]
These two photos are from 1985 showing the open areas of the developed Whistleberry Road looking over to the A725 East Kilbride Expressway, then still a comparatively new road. This is a perfect example of how nature can regain a foothold, even in the most unlikely of urban environments. In the space of 34 years, […]
Things are looking a little dated in this next photo from 1977. Taken from the carpark of the Doonin Pub, it looks across a rather untidy Broompark Road towards the former Larkfield Bing, once the site of Dixons Pit 4. The date is known. 21st April 1977. I was just 6 years old at that […]
I’m pretty sure this great photo is late 1950’s or early 1960s (as the Kirkton housing estate in the background is already there and looks pretty new). Even then, 6 or 7 decades ago this prominent old High Blantyre tree was massive. The openair ‘iron duke’ toilet in the wall underneath the tree must have […]