Let’s go back 36 years now to 1983. These photos show the relatively new ASDA superstore alongside the carpark. Who remembers the old blue and orange ASDA sign? The store looks new in these photos, clean slates and brickwork and the whiteness of the upper windows on the former Clydeview Shopping Centre (East). I was […]
ASDA in Blantyre opened on Tuesday 21 October 1980. The date of the new £3m superstore was unveiled to Blantyre residents a month before and for the best part, many people were excited and looked forward with anticipation. It was the third superstore to open in Lanarkshire, one of the largest. Mr Peter Firmston-Williams, ASDA’s […]
After all the uncertainty in Blantyre around Glasgow Road Re-development in the late 1970s, people in the town finally received some welcome news. The brand new ASDA, in 1980 then still being built was looking to hire upwards of 300 people and for many, it was an answer to mass unemployment in the town. August […]
Landscaping Work Progresses The ASDA retail units may not be getting built anytime soon, but there’s a plus point. There’s quite an open view forming from Craig Street and Asda Car Park, all the way down to the Public Park, opening up the space which we think will look green (if not fairly redundant) in […]
Phasing Altered Thanks to Blantyre Community Council who have managed to get a written response from ASDA regarding their retail units. Following our concerns this week and approach by the Community Council for more information, ASDA have issued a ‘statement’ confirming they WILL build the units, but have altered the phasing of them being built, […]
By Blantyre Telegraph: So, our suspicions this week have proven correct. ASDA will not be rebuilding Clydeview Shopping Centre or building large new units. (anytime soon) Following our concerns this week seeing paths and kerbs being laid with no building foundations constructed and seeing how evasive ASDA was being in describing their plans, we decided […]
Asda’s Site Work Progresses You may have noticed that all the demolition work at Clydeview Shopping Centre, near ASDA is complete. The protective hoarding is now down leaving for the first time, wide open expansive views from the carpark right down to the Sports Centre and the colours of the Public Park. The site is […]