What a wonderful previously unseen photo this is. Clearly staged with more than a hint of Victorian fashions and style, I believe this was taken in 1896 or 1897 by photographer David Ritchie. The image is scanned from negative plates, providing exceptional detail. I think it is the Burns family, who briefly lived at Caldergrove […]
This photo postcard is one hundred years old. It’s certainly dated from 1917 for on the back it simply says “Somewhere in High Blantyre”. Very faintly at the top right is the pencil word, “Scot” which may or may not be relevant. Shared by Gordon Cook, the picture presented several mysteries in both who is […]
Lets talk about the little piece of green land at the corner of Glasgow Road and Logan Street near the petrol Station. Many people will remember the old post office that used to stand there, opening in 1953, demolished in the early 1980s. Before that was Turner’s Building and at that very corner a […]
On 17th January 15, Rosemary Harper contacted me with the following message and photo, “Hi Paul, My Husband’s grandfather, Samuel Alexander Brown (1878 – 1921) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. In his later years he ran a shop. I was never able to pin down exactly where the shop was but, have recently established that […]
Arthur Brown founded Barnhill Nursery in Summer 1834. The nursery building was made of thatch and sited at the junction of Broompark Road and Hunthill Road, where modern bungalows sit today. Most of the fresh produce he tended to was sold locally to grocers and at times outwith Blantyre itself. Strawberries and Damsons were grown […]