Mr. William Cumming was a bank messenger from Denistoun, working in the Clydesdale Bank on Glasgow Road from the early 1970’s until just after 1975. Along with wife Toni, the couple lived in the house above the bank on the south side of Glasgow Road with 3 sons David, Mark and Cameron. Son Cameron said in […]
Clydesdale Bank Building Known to be in Blantyre since at least 1879, the Clydesdale Bank was not in the 1875 valuation roll, but was in Naismith’s Directory of 1879, meaning a likely construction date between 1876 and 1878. Then known as the Clydesdale Banking Company, the business was founded in Glasgow in 1838 and […]
By 1981, the Emporium was lying vacant and derelict, awaiting another use. It attracted the interest of the Clydesdale Bank in the early 1980’s, who were to move from their location further westwards to this more modern building. For nearly 4 decades, the Clydesdale Bank became a well-known feature in Blantyre at this location […]
After being vacant for over 2 decades, the space between Stonefield Tavern and the Co-op tall building was built upon again when the Blantyre Co-operative Society expanded their existing premises to the immediate west. By 1954, the Co-op had acquired the vacant ground formerly the site of John Coats house and bake-house and […]
Over the last few months I’ve received many messages asking who is moving nto the old Clydesdale Bank Building in Glasgow Road, across from the top of Station Road. Well, this week it was revealed that it’s none other than Blantyre long standing travel agency business, “Glen Travel”, something the business has now confirmed directly […]
With the recent closure of the Clydesdale Bank on Glasgow Road, I thought it would be a good idea to tell the history of that building and the one prior to it in that same location. 19th and early 20th Century – During the early 1800’s until the early 1900’s, a small block of […]