With thanks to Brian Weaver for sharing this photo. Pictured in Summer 1967 or so is the bottom of Sydes Brae. The former Dixon’s bings are beginning to be removed. Its clear how rural everything still is and there are no Jerusalem houses built yet. You’ll see that Mr Dale, the Old Parish Minister has […]
About ten o’clock on Wednesday 19th July 1933, just as the light was dipping, a terrible accident occurred at the junction of Stoneymeadow Road and Dalton, which left one person dead. Richard Dale, residing at 48 Park Street, Cambuslang was running his Blantyre sweetheart back to High Blantyre, when tragedy struck. He was riding a motor […]
This author of this account is lost in time now, but was likely written by a Victorian tourist in the mid 1880s. Such accounts of our town and it’s beauty need to be preserved in time, along with this wonderful old photo. “The line between Glasgow and Blantyre, a distance of some seven miles, passes […]