Andy Dickson shared this photo of his late Uncle, the Rev George Dickson. George was a former minister in Blantyre’s Burleigh Church at Glasgow Road, passing away in 1976. He is fondly remembered by many readers of this page. Andy told me, “When we were young, my sister and I always received books from Uncle […]
Abbeygreen Hall & Consulting Rooms At the western corner of Church Street and Glasgow Road, exactly on the junction was the former Abbeygreen Hall & Consulting Rooms. This 2 storey stone tenement building, adjacent to Abbeygreen may have once had the name ‘Bothwellview” on account of it facing northwards and perhaps being able to […]
From the book, “Blantyre Glasgow Road South – The Real Story” by Paul Veverka (c) 2017 Burleigh Church (United East Free Church) The Burleigh Church was a former church also known as the East Free Church or East United Free Church at Herbertson Street corner of Glasgow Road, Low Blantyre. Before the church was […]
A wonderful description of an 1920’s Blantyre wedding can be found in this article. The marriage was solemnised in East U.F. Church, Blantyre, on Wednesday, April 14 1926 of Rev. Jas. Stanley Fyfe, Duns East U.F. Church, and Miss Jean Murdoch Burleigh, elder daughter of the late Rev. John Burleigh, Blantvre and Mrs Burleigh. […]
Abbeygreen Manse – was the former Manse house for the nearby Burleigh Church (East United Free Church) and had address 4 Church Street adjoining to Abbeygreen Building at 2 Church Street. Abbeygreen Manse was built in 1899 prior to September that year. The first mention in census appears to be in 1901, where the Rev […]
On Thursday 8th February 1900 Mr George Kelly and Miss Maggie Robertson on the occasion of their approaching marriage were made the recipients of gifts from their fellow members of the choir of the East Free Church just off Glasgow Road (The Burleigh Church). News reports of the time commented, “The company met in […]
With the exception of the Mission Hall, there was only ever one other building on the east side of Herbertson Street prior to the 1980’s. The telephone exchange may be remembered by some of our older generation being there before 1958, but the building didn’t start out like that. It initially was a large, detached […]