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 […]
A wonderful drone aerial photo taken by Adam Bush high above Milheugh. With Blantyre in the background, the most notable feature is probably the brand new Pond at Niaroo, just off the Pech Brae. It really does give a sense of how large the new pond really is and shows a ring of birch […]
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 […]