Jim Mackie was surprised this week when a family member contacted him to say he had come across Jim’s old Landrover in Cumbria. Jim had run Blantyre business J&J Mackie Ltd. Jim and his own father built the garage in 1965 and sold up to retire in 1997, the time when he sold on this […]
Here’s another piece of land that I think could have been put to good use. The old hardstanding of the former garage on Main Street would have made a perfect carpark for a dozen or so cars, especially when you consider just how many cars park on the pavement when a Masonic meeting is taking […]
Shared here by Sandy Wilkie, is the former Esso Garage on the North side of Glasgow Road. A particularly snowy winter in 1978. Just look at the price of petrol! I have this garage as being owned by John O Neil and dating from the late 1950’s following the demolition of Baird’s Rows. Situated directly […]
Margaret Sanderson kindly shared a couple of photos with me back in November. I’ll get to them shortly, but meantime was interested in this,…… Pictured in 1961, is High Blantyre Main Street Garage. This was once where Kirk Care now is on that same side. The photo was taken from the opposite side of Main […]
What a difference a decade makes! This the eastern middle of Stonefield Road back around 2006. The location is the former Letham’s Garage, and until i saw this photo, i forgot that a brick wall was along the pavement for much of this vacant land. Today, it has a couple of unfinished homes on it, […]
Here’s a photo of Harpers Garage, which was on Glasgow Road (near where Clydeview Shopping Centre is.) Harpers Garage was at the bottom of Craig street, next to Watts the dentists on Glasgow Road. Orestees was just along a bit, nearer Victoria Street. Across the road was The Cosy Corner and Peter ice cream parlour The […]
These photos are of High Blantyre Main Street in 1927. A busy street as horse and carts go about their business as well as people on bicycles. This scene looks East towards Hamilton. On the at the S bend in the road is the junction with Broompark Road. The buildings on the right are now […]