It’s a scene which is little changed today. The entrance to Blantyre Old Parish Church at High Blantyre will be familiar to many people. The gate pillars and adornments, and indeed the gates themselves still look like this today, despite this photo being taken 60 years ago in 1962. The two lines of slabs which […]
How easily it is to forget how ASDA once looked. These photos from 1985 show the original branding and entrance to the Blantyre store. Who worked in ASDA in the 80s? What’s your memories of the store? Glasgow Road certainly looked different from the previous decade, and despite the new looking buildings and lack of […]
A few photographs shared with me from Alex Bowie in Strathaven, were taken way back between 1905 – 1915. This one is of the entrance to Greenhall Estate, on the Turnpike road, at the top of the hill leaving Blantyre. Incredibly, I can zoom in on these photographs to see incredible detail. The stone pillars […]
Whilst walking in Auchentibber in January 2015, I stumbled upon these old pillars, entering a field between Auchentibber schoolhouse and Auchentibber Farm. anther substantial i thought for an entrance to a field with nothing in it. However, I had to go back to 1898 maps to see what was going on. Just over 100 years […]
According to Roy’s Military map, the entrance to Shott House, High Blantyre was at the centre of the Shott land, rather than accessed from a side or more Westerly entrance. There is no doubt on this map that the main entrance opened out directly in line where the house is, rather than the current entrance […]