This photo was shared recently by Jack Bethel. It’s an aerial photo of Blantyre taken in the early 1980s. A time before the Technology Park and before housing beside the church. The road snaking through the picture is Hunthill Road, with the old High Blantyre Primary School seen at the bottom left, one of 2 […]
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2018 Bothwell Castle Aerial
How about this for an amazing picture! Captured by a drone above the Priory Plantation woodland on the Blantyre side of the Clyde, it looks northwards over to Bothwell Castle and beyond. Taken in Summer 2018. You can see the narrowing of the river at the bend, where once in the mid 1940’s the Priory […]
Aerial View of Calderside
1961 High Blantyre Aerial
Taken from high above Burnbank Hillhouse, this aerial photo from 1961 looks back towards High Blantyre. At a time before the EK Expressway, you can see the relatively new Kirkton Avenue and Waverley Terrace in the Housing Estate in the foreground, which had only been constructed a few years earlier. The fields to the […]
1964 Aerial Photo Causeystanes
A few people last year asked me for a photo of the tenement buildings that used to be in Cemetery Road. In this photo, a first seen online, Causeystanes in High Blantyre is viewed from above, an aerial photo taken above High Blantyre Main Street in 1964. To the bottom left we have Broompark leading […]
Niaroo Pond
1947 Blantyre Aerial
Blantyre man Tom Robertson gave me a copy of this aerial photo. Pictured from above is Blantyre in 1947, just after WW2. The most prominent feature is probably the length of Stonefield Road and the junction with Glasgow Road. You can see also Dixon’s Rows, the former miners homes spanning off Stonefield Road and […]
FinmeOot Aerial 1941
A great aerial photo taken in 1941. From above Blantyreferme, this photo looks over to “Finmeoot”, Caldervale. The former mining community is no longer there. The railway line to Glasgow from Blantyre can be seen cutting across the middle of the picture. The road leading over to Newton in the foreground. On social media: Rena […]
Shuttle Row Aerial View
This is a great aerial shot captured by the late Neil Gordon in the 1990’s, above Shuttle Row, Low Blantyre. It serves as a great record for how things look at present, not just the buildings but the fountain and Africa Pavillions. Important why? Well, the museum is ready to be renovated and part of […]