More stories from Auld Blantyre, which I hope you’re hearing for the first time. 120 years ago, the sight of a motorcar was indeed a rare thing. Even more so if one was travelling through a small mining village like Blantyre. On Monday 19th October 1902 a sensation was felt when a motorcar unexpectedly passed […]
An alarming accident happened at Main Street, High Blantyre on the evening of Monday 7th May 1906. Motor cars on the roads in that year was something fairly new and rare and when one of the contraptions overturned, it caused quite a stir. The motor car belonged to Mr. William Hamilton, an engineer of Uddingston. […]
Love this photo! From 1903, it shows the popularity at the start of the Tram Network throughout Lanarkshire. Whilst the photo was taken for a postcard in 1903 in Motherwell, the tram at the front is heading for Blantyre. Men and women in an open top packed car, this would have felt like the future […]
A Blantyre family had a remarkable escape from death on Saturday 13th August 1927, when a motor car in which they were travelling, ran down an embankment, overturned, and went on fire. There were five persons in the car. Mr and Mrs Thomas Forrest, Glasgow Road, Blantyre; their son, John, aged 20; their daughter, […]
Elizabeth Weaver has shared this family photo, taken outside 104 Victoria Street in the mid 1950’s. She told me, “The car belonged to our Uncle John Scott’s – Uncle David Scott giving it a helping hand there I think! Don’t know who the weans are! Possibly 1956 when i got my first camera.” The boarding led […]
Pictured here in mid October in my garden at High Blantyre Main Street, is a bag full of mushrooms! Now, i know what you’re thinking, and thats not why i was picking them. I usually find a few mushrooms growing in my grass in the dampness of October, but this year, with milder weather, […]
On Saturday 26th November 1932, one man was killed and 5 people injured when a car collided with a group of football supporters on their way to the Blantyre Vics game at Castle Park. A motorcar had swerved on to the pavement at the junction of Glasgow Road and Forrest Street, to avoid colliding […]