Annie Gilmour Dawson’s child
Here’s a story of a single woman who pursued money for the ‘upkeep’ of her illegitimate child at Blantyre Works, The Village in 1903. On 13th June 1903 at Hamilton […]
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Suspension Bridge
I was delighted to find this newspaper report from 1853, which provided a little more information on the arrival of the first Suspension Bridge at Blantyre Works. Can you […]
Village Prank goes wrong
An eventful event occurred at Blantyre Works on Friday 29th August 1851. John Alexander, aged 10 and his friend, another boy were playing with a makeshift bow and arrow […]
Village, Gardens & The Clyde
Here’s the full photo from 1900 or just before showing the expansive Blantyre Works Mills, the sweeping Clyde at the bend. If you look closely you’ll see the gardens on […]
1940 Blantyre Works Wages office
Here’s the former Blantyre Works wages office, which today is now a beautiful, modern home, located near the David Livingstone Bridge on the River Clyde. This colourised photo is […]
1890’s Blantyre School
Taken from an old late Victorian ‘Magic Lantern’ show, this slide shows the former School at Blantyre works. Colourised, you can make out the building was heated by fires […]
Wages Counting House
A wonderful snowy scene from Winter 2017 captured by Jim Brown. The house is the part of the former orphanage, later used as a wages counting house at Blantyre Works, […]
Hamilton Place, Blantyre Works
Hamilton Place was located at the former Blantyre Works Village. Situated on the western side of the quadrangle, it was the northernmost of 3 blocks which formed and was part […]
Mid or Middle Row, Blantyre Works
Continuing our look at brand new “old Blantyre photos”. This time a private photo, so exclusively again on Blantyre Project, for the first time online, one of the only known […]