Pictured just before the Millennium in rare aerial photo is the David Livingstone Birthplace, or David Livingstone Centre as it was known then. The photo was arranged by Neil Gordon and appears in his book just after the Millennium. Seen here for the first time in high resolution colour, you can see the building had […]
Who remembers Tommy Morgan’s shop on Station Road? It will take a person of a certain age to recall this little wooden shop, which stood isolated and standing itself on a big open plot of land. During the 1950’s and 60s it was run by Tommy MORGAN and his wife. It was a wooden hut, […]
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 […]
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 […]
TWith thanks to Jim Cochrane for sharing this excellent aerial Photo of Calderside Farm in The spring (May) of 1972 or 1973.
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 […]
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 […]