This is of course High Blantyre, pictured around 2000. At the corner of Hunthill Road and Main Street at the High Blantyre cross is Carrigans. I have to admit loving this pub in the preceding decade. It was always super busy and I was forever in great, fun company (and near to getting home!) What’s […]
Geradline Carrigan Burns kindly shared this photo she took in 1985 at Kirkton Cross. Pictured is Carrigans Public House, complete with the original door at the front corner. (now a window). Geradline told me that the building had been suffering badly from subsidence, much the same as many of the adjacent homes had been […]
On Tuesday 8th November 2016, just before a Committee meeting, I was lucky enough to be invited along by the Carrigan family for a sneak preview of their new pub in Broompark Road. I’d been keeping a eye on the construction work, as pictured here in the outside photo on 19th October 2016. The […]
This series of photos was taken by Gordon Cook back in early 2015 when the construction of the first phase of the new Carrigans Building in Broompark Road got underway. The Carrigan family acquired some of the former Larkfield bing and excavation commenced for their new premises in Autumn 2014. Through Autumn and Winter 2014 […]
It gives me great pleasure to be able to give the people of Blantyre an exclusive insight into an exciting project about to commence in Blantyre, which sees perhaps the most significant investment in Blantyre in recent years. Announcing Barry, John and Philomena Carrigan, owners of John Carrigans in Broompark Road, Blantyre, are about […]
Long before John Carrigan’s Pub at Broompark Road, or it’s former life as Finbars, Manhatten, Eddie Collins Bakery, Ingrams Bakery or even older, Lawson’s Bakery, the site at Larkfield was home to The Alhambra Theatre. The building is not featured on 1859 maps, so must have been constructed in the 1860s or 1870s and had […]
I’ve been told on several occasions that these photos are of School Lane, Kirkton, High Blantyre in the 1920’s. I have to say firstly, they are AMAZING photos capturing kids playing and 1920’s everyday life. They depict a very natural, fun Scottish street scene. The photo was on the wall in Carrigan’s Pub, High Blantyre […]