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, […]
We turn now to 1971. Photographed from above is the commencement of the new housing estate at Jerusalem, High Blantyre. Of course this is the affectionately nicknamed housing estate which has white homes and initially had flat roofs. It did once look very middle Eastern. In this photo, the East Kilbride Expressway had not yet […]
Pictured during it’s construction in 1905, is St Joseph’s Church, at the junction of Glasgow Road and Mayberry Place. Incredible to think this photo is almost 110 years old. In the foreground lay building materials and although the stonework is in place, the building itself was still roofless when this photo was taken. The RC […]