On Saturday 25th April 1914, two Blantyre men, not particularly fond of one another decided to settle their difference in a Burnbank Pub. Differences that were to be settled with gunpowder! Shortly after six o’clock, when the bar in Burnbank was filled with customers, a loud explosion attracted the attention of everybody there to some […]
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1985 Whitehill to Blantyre Corridor
These pictures are from 1985. They show the Whitehill to Blantyre corridor at the railway and also at Whistleberry Road. The A725 still looks new, this scene at the verges now very overgrown with woodland. Do you recognise the small track? I’m stuck with that photo. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for […]
Greenfield Old Rows 1890
It’s incredible to think, but this rare old photo of Greenfield Old Rows was taken nearly 130 years ago! In 1890, a photographer captured this scene showing the tied miner’s house to Greenfield Colliery, not far from Burnbank. Situated between Blantyre and Burnbank, Greenfield Colliery employed many Blantyre people, although of course these former […]
Greenfield, once our nearest neighbour
Greenfield was a village or hamlet in its own right. The sleepy, rural scene with just a farm owned by the Potter family, denoted in 1859 maps, was short-lived and this whole area would quickly give way to industry with the discovery of coal. As the population expanded in the 1860’s and 1870’s workers […]
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Forgotten Boundary Farms
Over the next few months, I’ll be posting daily with extracts from my open book draft about the entire history of Glasgow Road. Collecting the social history and comments from many thousands of people on this site over the last few years, I’ll be further exploring, every Glasgow Road building through each Century, […]
Jessie Ewart Balfour 1913
1978 Glasgow Road near Clark Street
Back to Glasgow Road. This time 1978, a time when huge redevelopment was underway. Blantyre residents go about their daily business, hands full of shopping, for Glasgow Road had just about everything you would ever need at that time. Looking towards Burnbank, the picture is taken near the former junctions of John Street and Clark […]
1920’s Robert Main at Udston Farm
Jim Cochrane sent in this photo from his family collection in November 2014. Pictured is Robert Main, his Great Grandfather at Little Udston Farm, which sat just below Park House on the North of the railway. Little Udston Farm, as located just over the Redburn, sat in what is now Westcraigs in Burnbank Parish, but […]