Pictured here by Robert Stewart in 2014, is The Bethany Hall in Glasgow Road. This Church was constructed in Glasgow Road in 1905, the same year as the nearby St Josephs Church. Those two buildings must have changed the face of the street considerably that year. The Church belonged to Blantyre Primitive Methodist Church which […]
This amazing photo dates back to 1947, just 2 years after the end of the second world war. Pictured is High Blantyre Main Street. Pictured from approximately at the entrance to the Old Parish Church, and looking eastwards back along Main Street, many of the buildings are no longer there. This was largely a residential […]
With the building of a “state of the art” Church Hall at the junction of Main Street and Hunthill Road in 1893, High Blantyre Parish Church had added a great community asset not just for the people of the congregation, but a useable asset for everybody in the town. With immediate effect the church hall […]