These photos are inside and outside of Russo’s Grocers at 156 Glasgow Road, Blantyre. Taken on 21st September 1981, they show the last days of trading, the shop sparsely stocked as everything got sold off. What a shame to see the end of businesses like this and indeed the tenements themselves which had accommodated traders […]
Staying inside “auld” Blantyre shops this week and another nostalgic photo of Amerigo ‘Rigo’ Russo’s grocers at 156 Glasgow Road. This time the back of the shop is pictured. This shop was located between the Glencairn Laundry and Stepek, which was at the end of the Miller’s Laun block. Photographed on 21st September 1981, almost […]
Next we go to Millers Laun, the former tenements between Clark Street and John Street. Staying with our theme this week of going inside some of these old shops, we enter the door of 156 Glasgow Road on the north side. This is Amerigo ‘Rigo’ Russo’s grocers shop, pictured on 21st September 1981, just before […]