In 2001, planning permission was granted to construct 16 new flats at the site of the old Blantyre Mill works. Objectors failed in their bid to stop the development near to the edge of the River Clyde. In 2001, there were three dilapidated buildings on the one and a half acre greenbelt site, close to […]
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1923 Dilapidated Shuttle Row
Shuttle Row falls into decline
By the 1910’s and early 1920’s Shuttle Row, the birthplace of David Livingstone was starting to fall into serious decline. The homes there were in deplorable condition and like other buildings in the Village works, had been condemned. This picture allegedly of 1916, shows just how squalid the exterior of the houses had become. Brickwork […]