There’s a few things in this photo that allow it to be dated. I believe its from 1988. The 599 Social Club sign is still on the brick building beside Elm Street and there’s a for sales sign up, before it became Cobblers or the flats. The Social Club ended in 1988. More telling, further […]
Lorraine Adair had the foresight in 2009 to take these photos showing the last few months of St Joseph’s Primary School. The new school opened behind it in Park Lane in 2010, but it would be some time later before the old school got demolished. Who went to this school? What’s your best memories?
How about these for a sorry picture! This is the east end of Glasgow Road. The last part of the Co-Op building came down in 1981 and with nearby tenements already demolished, this part of the town had literally become a wasteland. Pictured from the end of former Jackson Street, Glasgow Road cuts through the […]
This Church was constructed in Glasgow Road in 1905, the same year as the nearby St Josephs Church. Those two buildings must have changed the face of the street considerably that year. The Church belonged to Blantyre Primitive Methodist Church which at first at held their services in Dixon’s Hall on Stonefield Road. The building […]
Further photos of the demolition work during 1981 along Glasgow Road. The vantage point is former Jackson Street looking towards the demolition of the Co-Op Central premises on the right hand side and the 2 storey tenement formally named “Avon Buildings”. The road in the foreground is Jackson Street and Glasgow Road is beyond the […]
Some research I did earlier this month for Janet Dunsmuir. John Anderson Black,the son of John Black (a ploughman) and Flora Anderson was born in Greenock, Renfrewshire Scotland in 1866. Flora had been married before with maiden surname Reid. By the early 1890’s John had come to Glasgow to seek employment, which he found in […]
A brilliant photo of the demolition of Blantyre Co-Operative’s Central Premises. This was taken in 1981 from an unusual angle. It’s taken from former Jackson Street, the ‘cul de sac’ turning hammerhead in the foreground. Demolition was underway in this photo with most of the large hall still to be demolished.. Whilst excavators worked on […]