This next cine film should be of special interest to anybody who once stayed in the High Blantyre Prefabs. Filmed in the mid 1960’s it features locations along High Blantyre Road and the prefabs, looking over to Springwells and Burnbank. Some of the prefabs feature, as does the little shop within the Prefabs. When I […]
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High Blantyre Prefab Protesters
In December 1967, a 10 year old girl from the Prefabs in High Blantyre had her face badly burned after demolishers of the prefabs left lit refuse piled on the demolition of one of the homes. Additionally, the fire brigade had been called on several occasions after local boys found a way to dangerously […]