More old Blantyre photos today, courtesy of and with kind thanks to Anthony Smith. Pictured is Juliana Kakta in October 1939 alongside her son. The photo was taken in the allotment at the bottom of Baird’s Rows, not far from the middle of Forrest Street. The fence being the boundary to Blantyre Celtic’s Park. […]
Anthony Smith has kindly shared this photo of his grandfather, Nickodemus Kakta. It was taken in May 1941 on the family’s allotment at the bottom row of Bairds Raws, Low Blantyre. The corrugated sheeting was the fence around Blantyre Celtic football ground,near the stand. While numbers of allotments fell in the 1920s and 1930s, following an increase […]
In August 2015, I took some photos at Brown’s Land, in particular the plot of land at the side of the Auchentibber building, which I knew used to be allotments. Blantyre’s Gordon Cook was able to offer me some more information when we were discussing it shortly after. The plots actually date from the Great War, […]
I was interested to see “Allotments” noted at the side of Stonefield Road on the 1936 map. The plots were located in two large fields behind Dixons’s Rows, the miners homes. Hemmed in by the Gasworks on Stonefield Road (on the later Letham’s Garage site). The worked gardens were not shown on earlier maps and […]