I’m sure that despite this photo being several decades old, this image will invoke a lot of nostalgic memories for many Blantyre people, myself included. This is of course the former Post Office building once located at the corner of Logan Street (Left) and Glasgow Road (to the right). Built in 1953, this prominent, rather […]
A nice colour photo from 1979. This is Glasgow Road, looking Eastwards, though you would be forgiven if you don’t recognise the scene. This is the end of an era and making way for the next. On the far right a demolished Rosendale has given itself over to preliminary advance earthworks for a new East […]
Back to 1979 with his photo of the north side of Glasgow Road. What can you tell me about this block and the shops here?
Another brilliant old photo of Glasgow Road. This looks eastwards towards Hamilton and was taken from the end of Merry’s Rows (now Elm Street). Off to the far left is Clark Street, and beyond the tram, leading off to the left is Forrest Street then Grants Buildings with the double canopy of Gilmours shops. Behind […]
This photo is from the 1930s and is Glasgow Road looking eastwards towards Hamilton. Taken on the toll brae the photo used for a postcard, was likely to celebrate the removal of tram lanes from the road and to celebrate a new hard surface being laid in the carriageway. As you see from the pavements, […]
We’re into some real old stories now about Blantyre, which hopefully you haven’t heard before. On the evening of Saturday 10th August 1901, shortly after seven o’clock, an alarming carriage accident happened in Stonefield, Blantyre, causing considerable excitement. A brake with three horses, which belongs to Mr George McLelland, carriage hirer of Burnbank, was plying […]
I’ve written previously about the telephone being run into High Blantyre Parish Chambers in 1907, but I’ve now found an earlier date when it first appeared in Blantyre overall, back as early as 1903 in Glasgow Road. On 27th March 1903, the Hamilton Herald newspaper reported, “We are now in a position to state that […]