A couple of photos next, once shared from Cath McInally. I suspect they’re from the 1990s or just after and show a parade on Main Street, just outside the Dales near the top of Broompark Road. Also pictured is a gala at High Blantyre’s Kirkton Park. Anybody know the year or recognise anybody? Featuring Blantyre Project […]
Another look at Main Street in the 1980s, the final picture in this set. Looking north east the most prominent sandstone building in the background on the left is the current ‘Dales’ tenement at the corner of Broompark Road. However, the other buildings to the right of them are all mostly gone. The tenements […]
Mr. John Hall Nicol was a well-known Lanarkshire builder and Architect of the early 20th Century. Born in 1875, the son of John Nicol a grocer, he was also Justice of the Peace taking up residence in Hamilton and later in Motherwell and Harrowgate. He was primarily a builder but also a sandstone quarry master […]
Mr George Crawford messaged me in May, “I was born on the 18th of March 1930 at Beckford Lodge, Hamilton to Alexander (Alex.) Crawford and Mary (Polly) McKinnon. We stayed with my grandparents John McKinnon and Martha Skeldon Wightman at May Cottage Ferniegair before flitting to the Dales on Main Street, High Blantyre in the […]
Although a little blurry, this is one of my favourite photos of High Blantyre, if only as I believe it is perhaps the oldest photo of any Blantyre street. Exclusively put online here for the first time, it was taken in 1869 and shows Main Street looking eastwards. To give you an indication of […]
On 3rd January 2014, Catherine MacDonald Scott contacted me saying, “My friend’s mother lived at 244 Main St., Blantyre at the time of her marriage in 1939. I looked at Google Street View and found the address. Would these houses be the same ones as existed at that time or have they been rebuilt? Thank […]
David Dale was a Scottish entrepreneur who was instrumental in establishing Scotland’s cotton milling industry. He was born in Ayreshire in 1739. In 1783 he met Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the spinning frame, at a dinner in Glasgow. Next day the pair went to the Falls of Clyde to see if the power […]