Here’s a fantastic nostalgic photo you won’t have seen before. It’s Glasgow Road in the early 1970s looking east. In the foreground is the Cosy Corner Pub at the corner of Greenside Street leading off to the left. To put this in context Greenside Street would be where the bus stop is now in front […]
In September 1979, three streets in the centre of Blantyre were blocked off (for their own good, it was said!) Hamilton District Council had decided in August that year they would block off the end of Elm Street, Logan Street and Greenside Street because of redevelopment in the area. The plan was to prevent traffic […]
How we take things for granted these days, like being able to listen to the radio for instance. The first case in Hamilton Sheriff Court ever to be heard under the Control of Wireless Telegraphy Act. 1904, concerned James McLean, a miner, Greenside Street, Blantyre in December 1926. James was fined 20s for installing […]
Cosy Corner Public House was a former public house with address 206 Glasgow Road at the corner with 1 Greenside Street. The building dates back to 1875, when brothers William and Thomas Hart bought a vacant field, previously never built upon and constructed a tenement 154 feet long facing on to and opening on to […]
On 28th January 1900, John Quirk, a miner carried out a fearful attack on his wife at Hart’s Land, Stonefield, Blantyre. The building was the scene where John took an AXE to his wife! On Wednesday 15th March 1900, he pleaded guilty to the attack and it was found that he had been in the […]
I think this postcard of Glasgow Road was created to show off the “new Glasgow Road” after the old tramlines had been ripped out. I cannot think why for any reason such a postcard would want to feature public toilets and looking from the quality of the road, I think it was to show off […]