This fantastic photo is the former Co-Operative Auchinraith Bakery, once located just off Auchinraith Road. Shared here by Gordon Cook, who told me, “This photo came from a little book issued by the Co-op in 1933 to mark their Jubilee. Members were given either a tea caddy or some other gift to mark the occasion.” […]
I’ve written previously about the Auchinraith Bakery, but posting again today with more detail and following an interesting email I received the other day. A brand new bakery at Auchinraith Road, Blantyre was opened on Saturday 15th October 1904. After posting recently about an accident on the chimney, and seeing all the comments from people […]
A brand new bakery at Auchinraith Road, Blantyre was opened on Saturday 15th October 1904. After posting recently about an accident on the chimney, and seeing all the comments from people who remember the building, I thought I’d post more about….. the opening of the Blantyre Co-Operative Society Bakery. The bakery was erected by members […]
This is the marriage of John and Sarah Baird. Regarding this picture, Janet Cochrane told me, “This is my granny Mains youngest brother. The wedding would be sometime between 1932 and 1935 I think. They stayed upstairs in the building at the corner of Hunthill Road and Stonefield Crescent. (Calderview). He was the baker […]