Continuing a look around Blantyre during the Millennium year in 2000. Next we’re on Glasgow Road, a time before all the dark green uniform shopfronts were created. Clyde Star and the age of the video still very much underway. I almost forgot the barbers was there. Who remembers Mackintosh Furniture Shop too? Photo: Veverka Collection […]
To the immediate west and joined to the Co-op Emporium were 2 separate Co-op buildings. A 3 storey tall tenement and a 2 storey tenement further west, the original Co-op older building. Lets look at each in order of their addresses, starting at 235-239 Glasgow Road, the 3 storey tenement. These buildings […]
Another photo from James McGuire. This time 1984 at the bottom of Stonefield Road. Who can remember on a Friday evening picking a VHS (or even a Betamax) from Clyde Star Video, and heading home hoping it wasn’t a video nasty! Chalmers Wallpaper shop was just out the picture, although by this era, it […]
Another excellent photo from James McGuire’s Collection. This time of Stonefield Road near its junction with Glasgow Road. A little later this time in 1987, you can see Clyde Star video as the first shop, with the Red Lion pub a favourite amongst many people. The Black hole (youth club) in the foreground. Whats […]