On Friday 29th August 1924, a sudden and terrific thunderstorm burst over Blantyre that afternoon. Shortly before two o’clock thunder was heard rolling the distance, and it gradually came nearer. By a quarter past two the elements were in a raging fury, and rain and hail was coming down in torrents, which lasted for […]
Annfield Terrace Annfield Terrace was a former 20th Century, two storey tenement at the western corner of the junction of Victoria Street and Glasgow Road. It should not be confused, as others have done with the older 19th Century ‘Annsfield’ or ‘Annsfield Place’, which was further away at Stonefield Road. The field, belonged […]
On Saturday 23rd January 1926, a disastrous midnight fire took hold of a building on Glasgow Road. The tenement premises occupied by Mr William McManus, provision merchant, 183 Glasgow Road, Blantyre were discovered to be on fire about midnight. The shop was on fire and difficulty was experienced by the tenants in the houses above […]
This photo is from 1963 and features Glasgow Road looking eastwards down the Toll Brae, so named for the Toll House in the previous century was where the building stands in the foreground. McWilliams Grocers at the corner in this photo where today the barbershop is. There’s a real divide to this photo. All the […]
A wonderful colourised postcard from 1906, depicts Glasgow Road near the bottom of Victoria Street. Looking eastwards towards Hamilton, on the right is Annfield Terrace (in front of Hasties) and beyond it on the right is Stonefield Parish (or Primary) School. The photo celebrates the growth and development of Glasgow Road and shows the […]
Pictured here in the late 1970’s is the demolition of Annfield Terrace, a building which sat on Glasgow Road, not far from the junction of Victoria Street. Looking eastwards along Glasgow Road on the left, the photo shows a good view of Ness’s Primary School (now where Blantyre Library is). The waste ground in the […]