Going back 71 years now to 1950 and a photo taken in Stonefield Public Park, Blantyre. Following the success of winning the Scottish Junior Cup that year, Blantyre Vics sadly found themselves with very little money left to even go and properly enjoy a celebration. The Fifth District Council, still recovering from war years, similarly […]
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Boathouse Fruits & Flowers
Here’s a list courtesy of Jenny Day, of all the different fruit including types of each grown at Boathouse in the late 19th Century. The former orchards operated as a business, a florists and a market garden and were owned and worked on by Archibald Brown between 1874 and 1912. We may more commonly […]
Interesting Photos
My good friend and history colleague Robert Stewart shared these 3 interesting photos with me recently. Robert added, 1) The aerial photo is from July 1965. Points of interest, the scar on the ground, bottom right, the start of the ground works for the EK Expressway, and top centre, the railway embankment next to […]
Childsplay 1959
Matthew McGuigan kindly shared these photos adding, “This is me and my then best friend John Haliburton in Blantyre public park in summer 1959 when we both lived on Craig Street. We moved to Millands Avenue the year after. Looks like I’m definitely wearing my big brother’s trousers though eh? I remember Mum telling me how […]
2015 Greenhall Crocus Carpet
Andy Bain is known to have taken many a great picture shared on Blantyre Project, and this is certainly another! Pictured here are Spring flowers at Greenhall in early 2015 Carpets of white snowdrops and purple crocus flowers adorn the grass. A beautiful scene. Andy was perhaps a little more enthusiastic in his report, but […]
Edwardian Stonefield Road 1915
1919 Stonefield Park Floral Clock
The reverse of this old family photo says “1919 – Blantyre Park”. I believe this is Stonefield Park in Low Blanyre. It shows a beautiful clockface made out of flowers and i’ve heard of a few tales about how this was maintained even to the 1960s! I have to wonder how long such a display […]
Hope nobody’s watching
Gordon French of 313 Glasgow Road, Blantyre was just 18 months when a photographer captured this photograph in 1953 of his cherub like pose, fixing some large dahlias at the Kelvin Hall Flower Show in September of that year. Source: Picture is courtesy of Dundee Courier. Catherine Morrison Is that the French,s that had the sewing […]