Thanks to early photography, you may already have seen some photos of the 1870s and 1880’s tenements and various shops along Glasgow Road. However, before the Collieries were sunk and before the advent of Blantyre’s Coal Industry and indeed long before these tenements existed, other properties ran along Glasgow Road, sometimes congregated beside each other, […]
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Mary Queen of Scots visit
Another noble visitor to Blantyre was Mary (Queen of Scots). The Annals of Blantyre book 1885 commented, “The old road along which Queen Mary passed on her way from Hamilton Palace to Cathcart Castle, on the day previous to the battle of Langside, intersects the property, and there is a beautiful spring of water in […]