The full photo of Auchinraith Vaults (also known as Matt Boyle’s Pub) on Main Street, High Blantyre. This building is directly opposite the junction of Muir Street, which can just be seen in the foreground. The photo is from 1980, shared here by Willie McLelland. The building actually looks better in that time than now. […]
New High Blantyre Pub A brand new pub on High Blantyre Main Street is scheduled to open later this Autumn. Looking likely to be called “The Rendezvous”, the pub is located in the former building, more commonly known as ‘Matt’s Bar’ or the ‘Auchinraith Vaults’. The premises have been closed for nearly 8 years and […]
At the Hamilton J.P. Court, on Monday 28th January 1929, a charge was made against Hugh McKenna, a publician residing at Uddingston for having sold exciseable liquor after 9 p.m. from his public bar in Blantyre. Hugh was the landlord and owner of the Auchinraith Vaults at High Blantyre, which in more modern times […]
I like to think of High Blantyre as being a quiet part of town, but that was far from the case in May 1932, when 4 men appeared in court charged with assault of each other in a High Blantyre pub! The four men were: Peter Rooney, junior of 11 Victoria Street, Blantyre; Anthony Barrett, […]