An advert for a Blantyre business I’ve only just become aware of. Nicols of High Blantyre, conducted watch repairs from their premises at the top of Broompark Road, at the junction of Main Street. This advert dates to 1901 and I think they were short lived, so it is little wonder I’m not aware of […]
The T junction at the top of Broompark Road, High Blantyre where it meets Main Street wasn’t always a T junction. It used to be a crossroads! On the 1890s maps, a street called “Forrest Place” led off Main Street towards the South, opposite Broompark Road. Leading to five tenement style houses, it would appear […]
I’ve been looking at this photo taken around 1905 or so which is the upper half of the Broompark Quoiting Team photo, recently posted here. I wanted to try and determine which properties these were, especially as one of them at that time, was still thatched. A 1910 map of Causeystanes reveals the location, and […]
These photos were taken around 1908 at Barnhill Quoiting Green. This small sports field was located in what is now the beer garden of the Hoolets. In later years it looks likely to have moved from this small waste ground pictured, to behind the wall, in a larger more defined Quoiting green adjacent to Broompark […]
The T junction at the top of Broompark Road where it meets Main Street wasn’t always a T junction. It used to be a crossroads! On the 1890s maps, a street called “Forrest Place” led off Main Street towards the South, opposite Broompark Road. Leading to five tenement style houses, it would appear Forrest Place […]
A map from a lifetime ago. That is, if a lifetime is more than 80 years. Pictured is High Blantyre in 1935 and what a lot has changed. The picture is worth clicking on to magnify. The town has changed very much. In this era, the High Blantyre Train Station was still there and functional, […]
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 […]