Whilst researching the year 1898, I noticed this advert in a local newspaper. It’s for ‘Trilene Tablets’ which promised to “cure fat people”. Now whilst a “cure for stoutness” is sceptical at best, it did show that remedies to assist weight loss were being pursued even 125 years ago. However, it wasn’t the outdated terminology […]
Love this advert! It’s for Andrew Gilmour’s former shop on Glasgow Road from around the 1910s. The advert provides more information on “Bananas” perhaps seen rarely in local grocers even at that time and plays to the curiosity of the customer. Mr Gilmour suggests perfect bananas can only be obtained “when a scientifically constructed Banana […]
An advert appeared in local press in 1967 for the Parkville Roadhouse, Glasgow Road. A rather wordy advert, but sharing plenty of information. Offering wedding receptions, the Parkville, just like today, was clearly a popular venue for wedding celebrations, boasting at the time of the function suite that could accommodate 160 people. Can you […]
Dusmuirs Drapers Shop – was located at the corner of Stonefield Road and Broompark Road. Formerly Danskins, Dunsmuirs bought over the shop sometime in the 1940’s. Mr and Mrs Dunsmuir ran the business. In 1950 John Dunsmuir’s shop specialised in Children’s Wear, Ladies Wear, Gents underwear and wools. It also sold hardware at their […]
The Brown Brothers were late 19th Century and 20th Century painters and decorators at McAlpine’s Buildings, Stonefield. They are noted in Naismith’s Directory of 1879 and as late as adverts in the 1950’s. Mr. Thomas G Brown whose yard was near the junction of Glasgow Road and Victoria Street owned the business which became the oldest established […]
Mr. Anthony Viola was a local ice-cream merchant in the 1950’s. Tony Viola was a wholesale & Reatil ice cream manufacturer based at 92 Glasgow Road. In 1950 he catered especially for weddings and parties. His telephone number was Blantyre 122. Do you remember Viola’s business in Blantyre? Can you tell me more? From “Blantyre Explained” […]
An old document advertising a machine for making concrete. Similar to today’s concrete mixers on lorries, this was a smaller , portable machine that certainly must have made batching concrete for Blantyre’s foundations much easier. Andrew Jamieson , Engineering works in Stonefield was the business advertising in 1890. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not […]