Moving on to some weddings from 1980. (Was that really 39 years ago?!) Do you recognise any of the couples. We hope they have had long and happy marriages. All into the archives on Blantyre Project. As always, if any person featured in these photos wishes them to be removed from the archive, please just […]
It’s not hard to see from this picture why the tenements at Kirkton were past their sell by date. Needing rewired, replumbed, damp, subsiding and unfit for habitation, these 2 storey tenements were all but derelict by 1990. I’m sure many people will remember the shops there near the cross. The bins in the […]
Back to 1989 in this photo. The Church Hall at Kirkton, High Blantyre had been demolished earlier in the year and by the Autumn, the site was flourishing…..with weeds, some of the clearance still to take place. This was around the time just before the widening of Hunthill Road. In the background is Carrigans […]
These new pictures should take people back to the early 1980’s. Pictured is High Blantyre, around the Kirkton area. Shared by Gordon Cook, I’ve zoomed in on the original to produce some new images, focusing on certain area like the old Church Halls at the corner of Broompark Road, the old “Welcome to Blantyre […]
I’ve been very quick at retelling stories of drownings at the River Clyde. Sadly, this has happened too many times that I could mention. However, as much as those tragic people need to be remembered, what about the heroic tales of rescues and where the outcome was positive. The tales of Blantyre’s heroes over […]
I’ve always been intrigued by this photo taken by Chris Ladds in 2006. Found near Crossbasket, was an unusually worked stone, in a configuration that leaves a lot to be thought about. What was it? I once thought it may have been a marker stone or even a grave stone, where the straight part […]
The name ‘Crossbasket’ is in relation to the Tower, the Estate and tied lands. The name ‘Basket’, being a sub part of these lands. The name “Crossbasket” likely took it name from ‘Basket Cross’, an ancient stone cross which once stood a small distance from the tower. It was often spelled “Korsbas”, or “Korsebasket”. Near […]