This story of a fire at Kirkton in High Blantyre, forced me to revisit and change something I’d previously written. It’s concerning Adams Building or Adams Laun at High Blantyre Main Street. As with previous historians in Blantyre, I’d mentioned before that Adams Building was the 3 storey tenement that stood throughout much of the […]
Highlighted in blue on this 1910 map, is a little window in High Blantyre, just off Main Street within Adams Sawmills. Strange subject perhaps for an article, but this has a nice story attached to it in future years. By the 1960s, the sawmills had a different use. Fellow Blantyre history enthusiast Gordon Cook told […]
On 20th December 2014, Karen Morrison of Queenstown, New Zealand contacted me with a brief message saying, “Hi Paul, my father was from Blantrye and I’m trying to put together a family tree. He came to NZ when he was about 17, both my grandparents were from there. My father’s name is John Morrison, they […]
On the left of this mid 1920’s photo is “Adam’s Sawmill”, the business of William Adam and his brother. The photo looks eastwards along Main Street. The entrance to the “Adam C&W” sawmill was between the lampost and the end of the building, not to be confused by the gates in the foreground, which lead […]