Here’s a fantastic nostalgic photo you won’t have seen before. It’s Glasgow Road in the early 1970s looking east. In the foreground is the Cosy Corner Pub at the corner of Greenside Street leading off to the left. To put this in context Greenside Street would be where the bus stop is now in front […]
This incredible high resolution photograph is of Blantyre Victoria (Vics) Football Club. Taken at the end of their award winning 1892 – 1893 season, incredibly the Blantyre photo is 122 years old! When Jack Bethel asked if I would like to scan a copy of it, I was excited to see all the people […]
Harts Land started off as a vacant field, indeed there is no evidence that anything at all existed at its location prior to the 1870’s. In 1875, William and Thomas Hart (brothers) bought this land, which was adjacent to Glasgow Road. It was fenced off in a large square, marking their boundaries and they […]