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I can’t quite imagine this happening today, but in 1913, the inhabitants of Blantyre and beyond had a choice in whether the area should continue to be permitted to sell alcohol. The Temperance (Scotland) Act 1913 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom under which voters in small local areas in Scotland were enabled to hold a poll to vote on whether […]
A last look for now at Greenhall House in High Blantyre. These are the former gardens, which once sat at the side of the grand house. The road in the background is now the Carpark at Greenhall, so this area here would be where the low, black railings and seats currently now, the ground sloping […]
Another look at former Greenhall House. This photo I believe dates back to the 1920s and you can see just how small the surrounding trees are. The house doesn’t yet have the distinctive ivy cladding it in the 1940s. This would today have been at the car park in Greenhall Park, the house on multi […]
A shop was completely wrecked on Glasgow Road on Saturday 26th October 1912, after a football result didn’t go the way a fan thought. On that particular evening, a rather merry Hutchison McKinnon, a Blantyre miner entered the grocers shop on Glasgow Road and started a conversation with some boys about the days football results. […]
On Thursday 14th November 1912, a fire took hold of a building at Thornhill Avenue (The Dandy), Blantyre. The unfortunate house was Priory House and when fire was observed around two o’clock that afternoon. Priory House at that time belonged and was tenanted to Mr John P. M’Caffrie, a spirit merchant who owned a pub […]
On 17th January 1913, a reader of the Scotsman Newspaper came up with a good idea. Why not buy the dilapidated birthplace house of David Livingstone at Shuttle Row and turn it into a museum about the great Explorer! It was a fanciful idea but one that planted the seed of such a wonderful idea, […]
Going back to the end of the 19th Century with this sketch showing a man fishing at Blantyre’s very own Milheugh Bridge! At the bottom of the Pech Brae and Lindsay Hill, this was the former bridge, before the current sandstone one. A nice depiction showing the Rotten Calder in its beautiful surroundings. This illustration […]