From the start of the Council houses, directly opposite the public park entrance was the lower end of the “Toll Brae”. This was a local name from the 19th Century for a short part of Glasgow Road for about hundred yards before the old Blantyre Cotton Works Toll Point (not to be confused with Monteith’s […]
Priory Street dates from 1936 and runs in a northeast to southwest position linking Glasgow Road to Calder Street. At its junction with Glasgow Road, nearby stands the Stonefield Tavern. With the slum clearance of the mid 1930’s demolishing many of the most northerly homes of Dixon’s Rows, a County Council programme of […]
Following the Lanarkshire Slum clearance drive of the 1930’s, and the clearing of Merry’s Rows, in 1950 town planners announced a new Street was to be formed where once the miners homes had been. These were to be modern, spacious double storey homes with gardens, indoor toilets and more than one bedroom. […]
Things didn’t get off to a great start when the central section of the A725 East Kilbride Expressway opened in 1978. At the new Auchinraith Roundabout new underpasses had been built, allowing pedestrians safe passage to the other side of the junction, without having to cross roads. Residents in Springwells complained right away noticing that […]
This photo, whilst a little random, was taken at a time before digital photography and google-earth street maps and at least lets you see Station Road 18 years ago. Taken by a camera with film, near the junction of Glasgow Road, at the exact location of the former Toll House. Can anybody name the businesses […]
This photo is from 1955. Taken 62 years ago, it’s somewhat of a coincidence, for that may just be the very number of the bus turning down into Stonefield Crescent. This wintery scene is captured from a garden in Hunthill Road and looks up towards the Cornerstone, when once a railway bridge crossed over […]
The East Kilbride Expressway was constructed in 3 phases. This article relates to the first phase. The first stage of the Expressway was built between Crossbasket and the Whirlies roundabout at East Kilbride. You would drive out of High Blantyre on to a fast road. Built in 1966 and 1967, it cost over £600,000 […]