Ann Watson recently messaged me with a great little snippet. Her granny, Ann Summers was around 12 years old when this took place in 1940’s Blantyre. Little Ann used to love when the fair arrived in Blantyre down at the “coo Park” at the bottom of the Dandy (the fields next to the Livingstone Centre!). […]
Small travelling fairs are known to have visited Low Blantyre since the 1890’s. Initially, simple games and booths for boxing matches, the fair arrived at Springwells on an annual basis, but was displaced from the ground in the mid 1920’s, with the creation of the greyhound track. A spare plot was utilized across […]
This 1955 aerial photo shows clearly the fairground was in town! Situated in spare ground between Auchinraith Road and the railway line at Springwells, the fair was operated by travelling folk and visited Blantyre on a regular basis. The vacant ground was immediately behind Rosendale. I can remember my mother telling me about her visits […]
The fair came to Blantyre in February 2015 to a new spot at Larkfield Bing. On the day they were packing up, after a full but successful 10 days here, this charming photo was captured at the bottom of Stonefield Road by The Priory Inn. It’s not often you see a converted dodgem car out […]