Gordon Cook recently shared a couple of wonderful photos of Kirkton Public Park at High Blantyre , are detailed enough to zoom in. Pictured in colour from near the School Lane entrance, this photo looks over to Broompark Avenue and Broompark Road. Taken in the late 1960’s, the path on the left led down to […]
How about THIS for a fantastic photo! This is Blantyre Priory some 100 years ago. As you can see even then the priory ruin was a lot more intact than it is today, with visible signs of windows, fireplaces, and holes in the walls which once accommodated timbers spanning floors and upper storeys. Even in […]
I promised you all that I had some great new colour photos to show. Facebook website, Scotland Colourised, will colour any of your black and white photos for free within 48 hours and a few weeks ago, I sent them a huge batch of photos from Blantyre Project. So here, for the first time, these […]
Some more brilliant black and white photos from the early 1970’s which have now been colourised for Blantyre Project. Seen in colour for the first time in all their rendered glory! St Joseph’s Primary School brought back to life! The bottom of Stonefield Road and the former beautiful glasshouse in the gardens of Calderglen House. […]
Something to look forward to here after Easter. A new module for Blantyre Project website, shared on this page daily. Photos of Blantyre places and people, some previously not yet seen online, all between 105-130 years old. Each brought to life through restoration and the addition of colour. As an example of quality here’s two […]
I’ve taken this old 1930’s black and white photo of the former outdoor concert arena at David Livingstone Centre and colourised the photo, to show how it may have looked like back it the day. This was a concert arena, which hosted speakers, musicians and pageants during the 1930’s. It was located in the lower […]
Following on from the recent articles about Priestfield Terrace, the High Blantyre Priestfield Hall recently showed me this nice colorised postcard. Pictured is Priestfield Terrace, possibly around 1930. As with many postcards, things appear slightly different for dramatic effect, and i suspect the background landscape has been altered to appear more “dramatic” or fill the […]