Dean Reynolds inquired about the BBC filming a documentary at Hasties Farm, specifically featuring women from Glasgow on a night out, including performances by John Healy. He seeks assistance in identifying the program to locate footage for Healy’s family. The post includes a 1975 image of the former Hasties building.
Gerry Kelly shared this great photo. Some people will recognise the venue as Hastie’s Farm. Gerry told me, “This is my dad and a few friends in Hasties. Maybe mid 70s, I think it may have been a retirement gig.” Jim Kelly is 4th from the right. Recognise anybody else? On Social Media, the following comments […]
A Blantyre coal merchant called the police nine times in as many weeks in early 1980 when midnight revellers from a local nightspot disturbed his peace. The complaints against ‘Hastie’s Farm’ a popular entertainment venue were however rightly justified as revellers poured out each evening, being overly loud and perhaps forgetting that there were many […]
Sadly, several avid readers of Blantyre Project are no longer with us. 2023 saw the sudden passing of a few people who followed these Blantyre pages every day and are notably now missing in hearts and minds and indeed the comments sections. I don’t post too often about this respecting privacy of families, but in […]
With thanks to Sheena Thomson who shared a DVD with her family memories from the 1960s. I’ve extracted some Blantyre snippets and put music to it and with permission show it here today. Amongst the scenes is playing in the garden at Coatshill and some indoor scenes of Hastie’s Farm, at Sheena’s own wedding, though […]
Lots of people reading this website will have fond memories of popular Blantyre business, Hasties Farm. Named after David Hastie the former owner of Stonefield Farm, the business was owned by Bob Brown. Here’s a peek inside of what it looked like pre 1975. The hard wooded tables and seats providing a rustic charm against […]
I promised you all that I had some great new colour photos to show. Facebook website, Scotland Colourised, will colour any of your black and white photos for free within 48 hours and a few weeks ago, I sent them a huge batch of photos from Blantyre Project. So here, for the first time, these […]