2024 has certainly been a year where I’ve embraced Artificial Intelligence in many places in my life including my business interests and hobbies. In an educational, professional and efficiency capacity, I am (afraid to say) slowly coming round to its incredible usefulness in ways I can’t even begin to describe. Mostly due to the time […]
This great previously unseen photo is from 1908. Taken at the very end of newly formed street, Broompark Avenue in Blantyre, it shows the new homes to good effect. They look very new in this excellent old photo. The single panes of glass in the windows, the clean stonework, in what looks like well built […]
I just love this photo of Blantyre kids at Broompark Avenue. When Alex Bowie shared it with me, I recognised right away Croftpark House in the background, which is now demolished and now Saint John Ogilvie Church. The house once belonging to the Jope Doctors. This is photographed from Broompark Avenue, I believe in 1905, […]
How’s this for a wonderful photo!? This photo is of Jessie Ritchie who was born on 11th October, 1896 at School Lane, High Blantyre. The daughter of David Ritchie, once a travelling joiner and Mary Ann Fleming, her dad is the assumed photographer. This photo is perhaps 1907 or 1908 and the bike is her […]
This lovely, previously unseen photo from my collection shows the brand new houses built on Broompark Avenue. Photographed here in 1908 or so, they were constructed around 2 years earlier by William Burnett. Obtaining the land from the Jacksons of Croftfoot on 1st November 1905, William Burnett planned on constructing an avenue with good quality […]
Today, we’re looking at the controversial subject of some of the privately owned roads in Blantyre that had by the Millennium got into a poor standard. With the council choosing not to adopt them previously, expectation was on the residents of each street to look after them. All these photos date from the year 2000. […]
Pictured here in 1908 in Broompark Avenue in exceptional clarity and high resolution is little Blantyre boy, Robert Ritchie. Photographed by David Ritchie (a distant relative of mine), Robert stands outside the door of his house in good clothes indicative of Sunday best, or perhaps part of a band or club? He lived at the second […]