On Monday 21st January 1907, Blantyre residents were delighted to see the extended tram line from Blantyre to Cambuslang open for use. For the first time, people could travel by electric tramcars beyond Priory Bridge, in the direction of Glasgow. Extending the line into Cambuslang allowed the trams to connect to other tram networks and […]
Seeing my recent interest in writing up the history of Loaned Cottages, Mr Gerry Young, decided to send in this photo, which was taken by himself from the Loaned Bing in 1982. Looking down upon the cottages, which at the time were mostly cow sheds, the photo in black and white feels much older. […]
On Thursday 23rd July 1936, a High Blantyre steelworker was tragically killed in an accident near to Blantyre. James Martin (41), a, crane driver, residing at 208 Main Street. High Blantyre, was involved in this accident which afterwards proved fatal. In the Steel Company of Scotland works Hallside, Cambuslang, two hand winches were being used to hoist […]
As you head down the Blantyre Ferme Road, you can turn left on to Calder Road which leads to Newton. About quarter of a mile from that junction, and right on the exact boundary of Blantyre Parish, is a little bridge, commonly referred to in modern times (certainly as recently as 1930s) as “Redlees Bridge” […]
The Priory Bridge is an iconic name and structure in Blantyre that still exists to this day. Whilst the bridge is entirely closed off to traffic for several decades, it still stands proudly as an old monument to Blantyre’s history at the side of the new A724 reprofiled Glasgow Road to the South of the […]
Pictured around 1905 is the Number four tram in Blantyre at Glasgow Road. The trams opened on 22nd July 1903 and were hugely popular permitting travel between Hamilton, Motherwell, Wishaw and Blantyre. By 1907 the tramlines also reached Cambuslang, the most difficult part of that extension getting over Priory Bridge. The Blantyre terminus was at […]
I’ve been recently asked a few times about the large house that used to stand behind Bardykes Farm, across the river, behind modern Callaghan Wynd, most recently by Blantyre project reader Gillian Cunningham. I’ve never posted about this house previously for although it was accessed from Glasgow Road, it was officially in the Parish of […]