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I had to stop for a second when writing this to double check the date. 1984….was that REALLY 36 years ago?! This photo taken at Glasgow Road looks over to St Andrews “new” church at the corner of Church Street. The cars may have changed, but actually looking at how the building is today, there […]
On 3rd September 1979, Stonefield Parish Church suffered a similar fate to other Blantyre churches that decade after going on fire. This appeared to be an accident following work being done on the roof. Despite losing their church building, the congregation remained resilient. During the next 3 years they travelled further west and met in […]
During the 1930’s, situated between Logan Street moving east was a small wooded area, which ran through to Church Street. The wood ran alongside the drill hall, what we know now as “Terminal One” Youth building. The name “St John’s Wood” was common to the 1930’s and 1940’s era and was less used post […]
Like all the southern side streets leading off Glasgow Road, Church Street had its humble beginnings as a field boundary between two fields, in particular at this location, on the former farm of Stonefield. The boundary became a track in the 19th Century and the track would towards the turn of the 20th […]
These photos kindly shared by Michael Barrett show his family garage and workshop at 19 Church Street, near the top of the cul de sac, during the 1970s. According to my notes, in 1970, Mr Barrett, the father of Michael, started a small bus business at Craig Street but had to move in 1973 […]
Batters, Mr. John – When John Batters was born in 1872 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, his father, Walter Batters Senior was 26 and his mother, Jean Hastie, was 27. John moved to Blantyre in 1881 when he was 9 years old and lived at Grimson’s Buildings then later at Coopermindale Place. He had one son, […]
Walter Batters was born in 1846 in Carluke, to William Batters and Jane Black, Walter Batters Senior and was an ironmonger by trade. The Batters family arrived in Blantyre around 1877 coming initially from Carluke then latterly via Hamilton. Walter Batters married Jeannie Hastie (the daughter of a High Blantyre Ironmonger James Hastie) on […]
Batters Ironmongers was a former late 19thand 20th Century shop on the north side of Glasgow Road at numbers 142 and 144, located on the lower floor of Millar’s buildings, stone tenements, situated between John Street and Clark Street. The shop was 144, the house above 142 and both were located mid terrace in a […]
Lynn Dougela messaged me in January saying, “Paul my brother found this in his house shed and wonder if you have any information on this doctor from Blantyre? Where he practiced and when or anything you might know? Thanks” Here are the notes I have on Dr Fisher. Dr David Keir Fisher, LRCP, LRCS, […]