Road Re-alignment In January 1927, plans were announced to upgrade the road between Cambuslang and Priory Bridge at a sum of £80,000. Further improvements were budgeted to bypass the Priory Bridge at a cost of £32,000 and to eventually remove the redundant tram standards. By May 1928, there had been complaints that the road […]
Pictured here in 1999 just before it opened, is the current David Livingstone Bridge, near the David Livingstone Memorial Centre. Photographed by Robert Stewart. The bridge previous to this wasn’t of the best construction. Indeed, so many shortcuts were taken on it’s construction, that by the 1990′s it was deemed unsafe and was eventually replaced […]
During mid November 2014, Blantyre man Gordon Cook contacted me with this photo saying, “I came across this wee photograph the other day, I got it a few years back, it’s from India. It shows a brand new bin lorry for Blantyre in 1948. It was known as a Thornycroft ‘Nippy’ lorry. The Indian connection […]
Thank you to Christina Forrest for sending in her father’s photo of the General’s Bridge, Stoneymeadow Road. A horse and cart is pictured crossing over the Bridge and the scene looks similar to today. The back of the photo is dated 1924. Christina told me, “I’m not sure how my father ended up with this […]
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 […]