Pictured here is the former Bethany Hall on the north side of Glasgow Road. In this previously unseen photo from the 1910’s, the church was actually then known as the Primitive Methodist Church. It opened on Thursday 23rd November 1905. The church closed during WW1 and lay disused until bought by the Stonefield Independent Co-operative […]
This Church was constructed in Glasgow Road in 1905, the same year as the nearby St Josephs Church. Those two buildings must have changed the face of the street considerably that year. The Church belonged to Blantyre Primitive Methodist Church which at first at held their services in Dixon’s Hall on Stonefield Road. The building […]
When we talk of the Bethany Hall in Blantyre nowadays, we tend to think of the existing hall at Glasgow Road, now used as a children’s nursery. However, it may come as a surprise (as it did to me!), that there was another Bethany Hall in Blantyre in the 20th Century, at the opposite side […]
You may remember a short time ago, I posted about old Robin Downie of Priestfield (pictured). Well, here is some information relating to the Baptist Church and good, solid confirmation of where the High Blantyre Bethany Hall was. Norma Marr who lives in Canada kindly emailed me a few weeks ago to say, “A couple of years […]