Demolished Low Blantyre’s familiar skyline changed permanently yesterday, Saturday 4th August 2018, when the final part of the Eastern side of Clydeview Shopping Centre was pulled down. It’s suddenly strange to see no shops or units there anymore. From the carpark, views across to the trees of Stonefield Park can just be glimpsed and the […]
I was reliably informed today that Woodburn House, a prominent old house at Woodburn Avenue near the station has been demolished this week. Seeing this for myself after work, the cleared site is currently fenced off with security. The house was gutted by fire in 2016 after lying empty for some time. It is unknown […]
Blantyre will remember 7th January 2016. The day the old St Joseph’s Primary School in Glasgow Road got bulldozed to the ground. The popular school was well known and attended by many people on this page and I’m sure will have a lot of memories for loads of Blantyre folk. With the new school already […]
A brilliant photo by Andrew Reid of High Blantyre, shared here by Gordon Cook. Pictured in the late 1950’s is a Winter, snowy scene showing Main Street looking Westwards, at Kirkton. The tenement houses along Main Street have started to be demolished, not surviving a hundred years (built 1865). Gone is the pub and general […]