This fantastic aerial photo was taken by the late Neil Gordon and shared here recently by his brother Robert. Taken in 1999, it shows the construction of the current David Livingstone Memorial Bridge over the River Clyde near Blantyre Weir. These were days before drone photography and to get aerial shots like these back then, […]
Some modern history for you all today. Who remembers Blantyre Station car park being constructed? Rob Gordon has kindly shared these pictures which were taken (he thinks) in September 2003. This is of course Blantyre Station entrance and carpark, being upgraded for all the current car parking spaces and turning circle it has now. Twenty […]
Here’s a rare sight! The building of the Blantyre Sports Centre. Taken in 1981, year or so before it opened. Homes in the background are John Street. The tenement to the right was one of the final buildings to be demolished on Glasgow Road redevelopment of the late 70s and early 80s. The building of […]
These previously unseen photos belong to Gordon Cook who has kindly shared them here. The construction of Blantyre Station offices on the westbound side took place in the late 1970’s, with the previous brick built buildings on both platforms demolished. British Rail followed a standard template for their ticket offices at the time building […]
In February 1989 when the old Church Halls were demolished in High Blantyre, work was planned to start on the new Church Hall in the field between the Church and the manse. By September 1989 work was well underway as these pictures show. The walls constructed in brick, the roof, a series of timber […]
A fabulous picture of the construction on the former David Livingstone Memorial Bridge. Taken by the father of Anthony Smith in July 1952, Anthony is pictured here with his brother and mother at the River Clyde. The bridge is being built in the background, spanning Blantyre to Bothwell. The bridge was roughly in the […]
Advance Construction Scotland is a dynamic groundworks and civil engineering business with an enviable reputation throughout the industry for outstanding customer service. They initially had a head office, essentially a large house on the outskirts of Blantyre directly on the site of the former grand Caldergrove House site near Bardykes which they moved to in 1993, […]