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 […]
This incredible high resolution photograph is of Blantyre Victoria (Vics) Football Club. Taken at the end of their award winning 1892 – 1893 season, incredibly the Blantyre photo is 122 years old! When Jack Bethel asked if I would like to scan a copy of it, I was excited to see all the people […]
Harts Land started off as a vacant field, indeed there is no evidence that anything at all existed at its location prior to the 1870’s. In 1875, William and Thomas Hart (brothers) bought this land, which was adjacent to Glasgow Road. It was fenced off in a large square, marking their boundaries and they […]