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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This photo dates from around 1915 and is part of a series of Postcards taken around that time. Pictured one Edwardian day is a street scene at the bottom of Stonefield Road, where it meets with Glasgow Road. I believe it to be morning as the shadows are laying to the East, indicating the sun […]
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 […]