Blantyre Aerial Photos

A superb collection of Aerial images of Blantyre from different eras

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Blantyre from above

1898 -Map overlays from 1898 combined with 2015, marked up by Blantyre Project

1898 Overlay map Auchinraith Nurseries

1898 Beggs Building

1898 Harts Land, Blantyre

1898 Map marked up with 2015 overlay. Showing Andrews / Allan’s chip shop

1944 – Priory Colliery Slip into the Clyde. This slip looks likely to have covered an alleged culvert (or tunnel) rumoured to have crossed the Clyde at this point.

1944 Priory Colliery slip into Clyde

1945 – Aerial Photos taken during World War II. They show just how rural Blantyre still was.

1945 Meadow Avenue now on site of Bellsfield Farm

1945 Priory Colliery Magazine store

1940s Railway Line near Westcraigs is now

1940s Railway Bridge

1945 Aerial Pic showing Park House

1945 Calderglen Railway Galt middle of photo

1945 Dixon’s High Blantyre pits aerial view

1950 – Craighead. Forrest Street and John Street. These Aerial Photos were taken by recon planes, mapping post WW2 Britain. Blantyre Prefabs.

1950 Blantyre, Station Road Prefabs

1950 Craighead

1950 Bairds Rows

1950 Station Road Prefabs

1950 29th Dec John Street, Forrest St and Blantyre Engineering works

1950 Blantyre Tehran Prefabs

1955 – Thanks to Gordon Cook for these Aerial photos. I have marked up some for demonstration.

1955 Bairds Rows, Low Blantyre

Looking to Main Street, Auchinraith 1955

1955 Parish Chambers in Cemetery Rd

1955 Bairds Rows, Low Blantyre

1955 Aerial Photo of Forrest Street, courtesy of G Lee.

1955 Aerial Photo Bottom of Auchinraith Road and Springwells

1955 Salvation Army Citadel, Blantyre, top of Forrest Street

1955 Auchinraith Nurseries Main Street, HIgh Blantyre

1955 Chalmers Building, Glasgow Road

1955 Looking to Victoria Street

1955 Birdsfield Drive, Timber Houses

1955 Greyhound track

1955 Birdsfield Drive, Timber Houses

1955 Birdsfield Drive, Timber Houses

1955 Bairds Rows, Low Blantyre

1955 Castle Park, Forrest Street

1955 Bairds Rows, Low Blantyre

1955 Fairground at Blantyre

1955 Looking to Victoria Street

1955 Birdsfield Drive, Timber Houses

1964 – Aerial of Causeystanes

1977 21st April

1964 Causeystanes aerial

1971 – An aerial photos showing Blantyre from above

1971 Blantyre Aerial Photo

1971 Blantyre Aerial

1971 Blantyre Aerial Photo

1978 – An Aerial photo celebrating the new East Kilbride Expressway

1978 Expressway section opens in High Blantyre

1992 – Aerial Photos of High Blantyre showing the demolition of Parish Church Halls at Main Street and the expanding Priestfield Cemetery.

1992 Priestfield Cemetery blantyre gets extended

1992 Waste ground where Parish Church halls were demolished in 89, carrigans pub in centre of picture

2003 – Aerial Photo of Kirkton showing just how green High Blantyre still is.

2003 Kirkton Aerial photo

2010 – Aerial Photos of Low Blantye & Stonefield from Google Earth.

2010 Google Earth maps showing Victoria Street

2010 Aerial photo courtesy of Changing Places, taken by Brian Young’s son on a training flight

2012 – Google Earth is a fantastic tool to be used for history. Its great to mark up modern Aerial photos showing what used to be there instead. These map squares are  marked up for some of my research. Milheugh Estate. Greenhall Cupmarks. David Livingstone Centre. Site of Greenhall Farm at Crossbow.

2012 Blantyreferme Aerial

2012 Milheugh Estate aerial

2012 Milheugh Estate

2012 Blantyre Lodge Today

2012 Aerial photos WW2 Battery

2012 Site of Greenhall Farm, now Crossbow Housing Estate

2012 Kirkton and High Blantyre

2012 Wages Office Location, Blantyre Works

2012 Stonefield and Glasgow Road

2012 showing old rail line near Craigmuir

2012 Aerial View of Lade

2012 High Blantyre showing 1800s section of road

2012 Greenhall Cupmarks location

2013 – Google Earth aerial photos of Blantyre. In particular, Priory Plantation, Clyde Bridge & Blantyreferme, Milheugh and Blantyre muir.

2012 Blantyre Muir Aerial Photo

2013 Hamilton Technology Park

Redlees Park

2013 Apple Maps are more current

Modern Aerial photo showing possible lade at River.

2014 Hamilton Technology Park

2013 Aerial view Clyde Bridge

2013 Priory Plantation

2016 – Aerial photos by Adam Bush

Aerial Photo by Adam Bush

Aerial Photo by Adam Bush

Aerial Photo by Adam Bush

Aerial Photo by Adam Bush

Aerial Photo by Adam Bush

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