During October 1977, a small Blantyre boy narrowly escaped injury when a 2 cwt. dentist’s light fell on to the chair on which he was sitting! The youngster missed being hit by the lamp only because of his size, but the chair was badly damaged. The incident happened in the new Blantyre Health Centre. Afterwards […]
This is perhaps one of my most fearful memories as a child. Photographed here in the 1970’s is Biggins Dentist on the north side of Glasgow Road. I can remember him practically climbing up on the seat to get a good position to give leverage for an extraction, which thankfully for me only happened once! […]
An offence, which Sheriff M’Donald said was punishable by a penalty of £lOO, was admitted in Hamilton Sheriff Court in October 1933 by James William Dunn, of 7 Watson Street, High Blantyre. He was accused having, between June 19, 1929, and September 18. 1933. practised dentistry from his home without being registered in the Dentists’ Register […]
Glasgow Road in the mid 1960s looking east. The building to the right of the middle of the photo was Agnes Hamiltons, the fruit shop. That little shop has had a long history of owners. After Hamiltons grocers, it was Mauchline Newsagent then Vinces Lombardi’s chip shop then, Mcwilliams grocer shop later to become Gallachers. Just right at the […]
A street no longer in Blantyre. Netherfield Place. I’ve marked up this 1897 map showing 4 buildings that formed “Netherfield Place”. This was a street that is now part of Calder Street. The four green dots represent the extent of the houses on Netherfield Street. Four, two story tenement buildings dating from the early 1890’s, […]