Near the end of June 2011, Contractors moved in to demolish Calder Street Secondary School. The Intermediate school which opened in 1912, was just 1 year short of its Centenary, though news of its imminent demolition and a wrongly written account (by others) of it opening in 1910, led to the school actually celebrating a […]
Work to demolish an old, dangerous tenement building in Springwells, Blantyre has started. Demolition contractors moved in this week to demolish the former Millers Fireplace and adjoining Frasers buildings on the North side of Glasgow Road near the Blantyre boundary with Burnbank. The stone built tenement building has been derelict for a few years, suffering […]
This scene is from around the 1910’s. Beyond the River Clyde on the Blantyre side of the river are the ruins of Blantyre Mills and up on the hill, Shuttle Row, the birthplace of Livingstone which was thankfully saved. The mills were demolished in 1903 leaving nothing much but the wages building (i’ve still to […]
The former Caldwell Halls on Glasgow Road had several other names. Officially, the Caldwell Institute, it was also the Stonefield Parish Church Hall and had the nickname, the Coffin Halls. I recently tracked down more firm information as to when they were demolished and found it was in early June, 1967. The unusual building, situated […]
Another fantastic new photo of the Demolition of the former Burleigh Church. This time viewed from Herbertson Street looking northwards to Glasgow Road. Doonin’s lorries are parked up ready to haul away the demolition material. The Burleigh Church already demolished in a pile at the back. By 1978, some of Glasgow Road was already starting […]
Exploring the demolition of the Stonefield Parish Church Steeple a little further. Attached is a photo of Glasgow Road from 1903. In the middle of the picture, Logan Street leads off to the right (which now would be the road leading up to ASDA petrol Station. The Priory Pub is a notable feature as […]
When the day of the demolition of the David Livingstone Memorial Bridge arrived in May 1999, it was found after cutting the main supports that the contractors could not pull it fully down. The attempt was abandoned and the next day further acetylene burning tools arrived to weaken the bridge sufficiently into smaller sections […]