A further photo from 1920’s Main Street in High Blantyre. This time outside the Co-operative buildings, which still exist today, but now as Costcutters, Hyper Cyber and the Hairdressers. A busy scene as Blantyre residents go about the business, shopping up the Main Street. If you look closely somebody is about to wheel out […]
Another wonderful photo of High Blantyre Main Street, from the 1920’s. On the right, in the Co-operative building (now Costcutters), a child carries the shopping basket of a mother or grandmother. A boy look on at the camera and the Co-operative delivery horse and cart looks fully loaded, ready to set off from the […]
Monte Whitefield wrote to me saying, “I would love any information you have on any family members. My great grandfather William Whitefield born Oct 28, 1870 (?) in Carluke, but lived and worked (?) in Blantyre. He married my great grandmother Mary McFarlane (born June 14, 1873). They lived in the area (Larkhall and Bellshill) […]
This is High Blantyre Main Street in the 1920’s. You would be forgiven for not knowing where this is though, as none of the buildings in this picture exist anymore. The tenement in the middle, sat directly opposite the junction of Broompark Road. To the right the tenements were once where the Chemist, Jinxy’s […]
Jenny McNelis contacted me in April 2017 (yes, I know over a year ago!), with the following: “My grandfather was Samuel Dobbins, Born1877 in Durham. His father was Alex Dobbins and mother Elizabeth. They are all listed on 1881 census as residing at Baird’s Rows, Blantyre along with other children Alex 12 Henry 7 […]
I took this photo of my front garden at Croftfoot on 6th May 2018. Seeing some good weather return, I used the opportunity to sort out the little derelict front garden, tidying it all up, planting some colour for the summer and finally making it look nice. I’ll be writing about Croftfoot in detail […]
The Hamilton Herald and Lanarkshire Weekly Newspaper on Friday 23rd September 1892 page 4 raised the possibility of an interesting mystery in Blantyre. It said, “ILLUSTRATED LECTURE OF BLANTYRE – The very Rev. Dr Gloag is to deliver a lecture on Blantyre, historical and picturesque, in Stonefield Parish Church on Friday, 30th September, at 8 […]