Abbeygreen Manse – was the former Manse house for the nearby Burleigh Church (East United Free Church) and had address 4 Church Street adjoining to Abbeygreen Building at 2 Church Street. Abbeygreen Manse was built in 1899 prior to September that year. The first mention in census appears to be in 1901, where the Rev […]
Thank you to Michael Barrett who emailed me a copy of this old lawyer’s letter showing that his father’s business RG Barrett bought 19 Church Street from the liquidators of former Thomas Baxter & Sons in June 1973. Such letters are like gold-dust to a local historian in being able to determine and record accurate […]
To be published on 3rd December 2016 Michael Barrett sent me this real interesting plan of Glasgow Road. Drawn up by the County Council in 1977, it shows some proposals for developing Glasgow Road, i.e what was to happen after the tenements were knocked down. However, what is quite unique about this drawing, is the […]
Michael Barrett messaged me, “There is an inscription in my workshop at 19 Church Street that says ‘WA 1912’ , within the concrete. (The workshop is behind a bungalow built in the 50s by a footballer….Hibs I think). Here are photos.” Upon seeing this, I believe it to be the construction date of the building and perhaps the initials of the […]
Back in March 2016, Michael Barrett messaged me saying, “I am just wondering if you have any old pictures of Church Street in Blantyre (quite near Asda) or Craig Street as it used to be before Asda was built? My dad had a small company R.G.Barrett & Co that he started in 1970 in […]
During the 1930’s, situated three quarters of the way down Church Street on the west side was a small wooded area, which ran from Church Street through to the next street westwards Logan Street. The wood ran alongside the drill hall, what we know now as “Terminal One” Youth building. The name “St John’s Wood” […]
Pictured here in 1903 is the Stonefield Parish Church (corner of Glasgow Road and Church Street). The present St Andrew’s Parish Church stands on the site of the former Stonefield Parish. By the 1800’s ‘low Blantyre’ was growing due to the cotton mills although this tailed off in the 1870s but was superseded by the […]