Hope you like these excellent photos! From 1980, this is the western side of Clydeview Shopping Centre. Pictured from the public park looking across Glasgow Road, 40 years ago this Summer this initial part of the building had already been constructed alongside the new ASDA store. What we’re looking at built in block is now […]
How strangely familiar, yet different. This is the scene going back 37 years at Clydeview Shopping Centre at the Asda Cafe. The old orange signage putting some nostalgia into the photo, as is the view across to a park, which even then in 1983 was still nicely kept. It was a time when the brick […]
More Glasgow Road photos from 1980. Previously unseen online, this is the building of Clydeview Shopping Centre, the upper units already built in the existing western side of the centre. The ASDA warehouse is well progressed and the steelwork of the corner premises still being built. The other photo shows bollard over the redundant entrance […]
Wouldn’t it be great, even for just one night to go back to the 80’s. Where would you go in Blantyre if it was 1989 again?
13th July 1982. The Clydeview Shopping Centre hadn’t yet been opened even 2 years but some of the units were still boarded up. I can see Lightbodys Bakers next to Glen Travel. Also Motorist Discount Centre (MDC) on the corner. The centre looks very familiar, clean but the hard landscaping pretty “bog standard”. This was […]
Going back now to 1982 to Glasgow Road and the Sports Centre looks almost brand new, its clean brickwork matching the cleanliness of the opposing new shopping centre. This must have felt very futuristic. (Anybody leaving Blantyre just 3 years earlier, would not recognise this scene at all if coming back in 1982!) The photos […]
In October 1980, Blantyre had a problem. With a new shopping centre on Glasgow Road taking shape, nobody had any real idea what to call it! The matter was left to councillors to decide, but this also proved problematic with several suggestions put forward and none able to be agreed upon. The name had to […]