With thanks to Bernadette Watt who shared these pictures. Her brother Brian Hughes built this Bogey for his delighted grandkids. It’s great to see a tradition like this coming back. This looks a particularly lovely bogey, built with care and love. Who all had a bogey in childhood then?! Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly […]
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Causeystanes – naming the area
Pictured is the junction of Broompark Road and High Blantyre Main Street in 1905. This pre-first world war photo is a great picture showing that this area was just as busy as it is today. Causeystanes is the name given to this immediate area, prominently cast in sandstone on the actual Blakelys Bar tenement on […]

