These great photos are from 22nd June 1977. I was just 6 years old around the corner in Stonefield Crescent when the former Colliery bing was flattened at Larkfield with work commencing on the current playing field. It was by all accounts noisy work, but nearby residents in both Stonefield Road and SSHA were tolerant, […]
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1947 Priory Colliery & The Clyde
During the evening of my book launch in November, I was surprised to find the most common thing people wanted to chat later about was the possibility of a tunnel between Blantyre and Bothwell. Again, I heard stories of how people used to play in a tunnel, but importantly again, this was in the early […]


