On Friday 29th November 1929, the employees of the Blantyre Engineering Company Ltd, held their annual dance in the Masonic Hall on Glasgow Road. Employees were permitted to bring along a partner and judging by the happy faces and attendance, it looks like it was a great night! Styles were changing. The straight, short bobbed […]
This weeks Blantyre “decades” video is the roaring 1920’s. A big decade for Blantyre saving Shuttle Row and honouring David Livingstone. Many homes were built that decade, including the “Crescents” and following Lanarkshire’s slum clearances. We were still very much a mining and farming community and with an economic depression, life was tough for most […]
To give you an idea of how Crossbasket looked in 1924, at the time of Thomas Dunlop Findlay owning it, here’s a photo taken from the riverbank, looking back up towards the Castle. A gardener poses for the camera bottom right. 1924 – In 1924 Mrs. Helen Maitland Findlay, Thomas mother, who was living […]
A great High Blantyre photo which i suspect is from the mid to late 1920’s and one which hopefully you have not seen. The street in between the houses is Hunthill Road. The photographer was standing at what is now the top of Watson Street, but this beautifully, clear photo was captured at at time […]