1901 onwards maps - Blantyre Project - Official History, Lanarkshire

An Archive of useful Blantyre maps from different time period

An extensive collection of Blantyre maps from different time periods

1910 – Map of Blantyre. Another favourite map set of mine. The population explosion was changing the face of Blantyre by the decade and this pre WW1 map, is a marvellous record of what was going on. The growth of collieries, the grand homes and introduction of sporting grounds like playing fields and curling.

1910 Map of Cochranes Chapel, Blantyre, Calderglen Estate

1910 Blantyre works map

1910 Map Marked up to put into context

1910 Map Warnocks Laun, Springfield Place

1910 Map showing River Clyde and outfalls

1910 Priory Plantation

1910 Sawmill window marked in blue

1910 Tramway crossing the Coal Burn at Laighlyock

1910 Glasgow Road Map

1910 Lint Butts Main Street

1910 Map showing Greenhall Brickworks at Craigmuir

1910 Curling Pond just off the Park Burn

1910 Main Street, Causeystanes

1910 Map High Blantyre. Red dot shows Lyons Laun

1910 Map Blantyre Works

1910 The Central Bar

1910 Auchinraith Rows Map

1910 Priory Bridge Map but no house!

1910 Greenhall Curling Pond

1910 Broompark Avenue map

1910 Adams Sawmill Map showing “WM”, the Weighing Machine. Main Street.

1910 Blantyre Coop Bakery

1910 Curling pond near Greenhall

1910s Browns at Logan Street

1914 – Geology Maps of Auchentibber and Calderwood showing strata, mine workings, quarries etc.

1914 Auchentibber Geology Map

1938 – Maps of Blantyre. A very detailed and highly accurate map set constructed just prior to WW2. This map is great as it confirms the recollections and placement of buildings , recalled by more senior generations. I’ve found this map very helpful when researching items, if only to show how Blantyre had changed in the first half of the 20th Century.

1936 Auchinraith map

1935 School Lane

1938 Crossbasket Tennis Courts

Christie’s Burn, Low Blantyre

1938 Honeymoon Miners Rows

1938 Bridge Positions

1938 Timber Houses original layout

1936 Quoiting at Broompark

1936 Brickworks at Blantyreferme

1936 Craighead Rows

1936 Stonefield Road Public Toilet with red dot

1936 Broompark Road Map

1938 Auchinraith showing construction of the Timber houses

1936 Auchinraith Timber Houses overlaid on 1936 map

Fisher’s Blacksmith Yard corner of Stonefield Road

1936 Bardykes Colliery

1938 Stonefield Map

1936 Whistleberry Colliery

1936 Springwell Map. Embankment on the bend

1936 Map showing Burnside Cottages at Parkburn

1936 Map showing what was to become Burnbrae Road

1935 Main Street, Kirkton Map

1936 Bellsfield Farm

1946 Blantyreferme Brickworks

1936 Auchinraith Junction map

1936 Dixons Rows Part clearance and building of Priory Street

1936 Livingstone Memorial map

1938 Calderside Map at the Fountain Pool

1935 Barnhill map

1936 Turner Buildings, Glasgow Road

1936 Calderview on High Blantyre map

1936 Map showing Stoneymeadow Cemetery

1936 Baptist Church, Main Street

1937 Scene of Calder Street Fire

1947 – Blantyre Aerial

1947 Blantyre Aerial

1977 21st April

1971 – Ordnance survey map of Kirkton

1972 – Russian Cold War Map (don’t ask me how I got it!). Major routes are shown in orange, yellow highlighting population density. It is not very accurate and I suspect created from high altitude recon during the cold war years. It is strange to see names being marked in Russian though.

1972 Cold War Russian map of Blantyre

2014 – Some local maps of modern times, including a coal Authority map of areas of Blantyre at risk. I have to say the Internet and Google Earth means I never use modern OS maps. I think Google Earth will replace OS maps completely within this decade. When using Google Earth as an illustration on researched articles, I like to mark it up to put the map into the exact context.