Let’s go back to 1976 next and to High Blantyre. Pictured here courtesy of Gordon Cook is the view from former Dixon’s Pit 2 looking across to the relatively new Jerusalem Houses. A recognisable sight, still with their flat roofs at the time. The industrial activities in the foreground is the earthworks phase for the […]
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Lockdown Quiz 17: Where is this?
Continuing our lockdown quiz. Where in Blantyre is this? And what year? Answer revealed tonight. With thanks to Sandy Wilkie for sharing. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors said: Stephen Mccall Is it the entrance to Bardykes Farm before the house were built. Fiona Dunlop […]
Revolvers fired at Police, 1920
1892 Douglas St Full photo
1892 Douglas Street
A photo from 126 years ago! This is High Blantyre at Douglas Street in 1892, looking across to the newly constructed church halls. In the foreground is a wooden cart, likely belonging to the whitewashed smiddy adjacent. Behind it is the Kirkyard Cemetery and behind that the tenements near Kirkon’s High Blantyre Cross. During […]
1892 Douglas Street at Kirkton
1877 Colliery Disaster Illustration
This has to be one of my favourite images of old Blantyre. Crowds of people make their sorrowful way down what would become Douglas Street on that horrible day in October 1877, the sharp turn still visible today near the bottom of Douglas Street. The three pits are pictured. On the left Priestfield Colliery (Dixons […]
1967 View from the Glebe
With thanks to Brian Weaver for sharing this photo. Pictured in Summer 1967 or so is the bottom of Sydes Brae. The former Dixon’s bings are beginning to be removed. Its clear how rural everything still is and there are no Jerusalem houses built yet. You’ll see that Mr Dale, the Old Parish Minister has […]
Douglas Street Fire 1909
On 7th November 1909, a terrible fire took place at Douglas Street, burning down a tenement building and taking the lives of 2 people. The sensational commentary was told in some detail in local newspapers and is retold here. Attached also, for the first time seen online in this clarity from 1910 -1915 is […]