I love this photo. Previously unseen online and photographed by David Ritchie around the 1910’s, it shows a man with this cart and horse on the General’s Bridge, Stoneymeadow. Such a clear photo for being nearly 110 years old. The man is unknown but his satchel would suggest he may have been a salesman, collecting […]
Continuing more previously unseen photos online. This fantastic picture of Robertsons Ginger ‘cairt’ has Blantyre man Peter McDonald standing beside it. His great grandson, Johnny Gilluley shared the picture. The cart actually looks quite new, well certainly the wheels do and I suspect this is what the photograph was showing off. The words “Springwell […]
Who remembers the Rag n Bone man? Coming round Blantyre streets with his horse and cart and blowing his trumpet announcing he was there. People would take out their old clothes and towels and he would give your child a balloon or some small plastic trinket in return. In later times, the rag n […]
There were several narrow escapes in Blantyre on the early morning of Saturday 22nd December 1928, when a horse attached to a milkfloat ran away from Thornhill Avenue near Glasgow Road, and continued its wild career for about a quarter of a mile, luckily clearing two buses on its way. It charged right down Glasgow […]
This photo was taken around 1900 in front of Shuttle Row, Blantyre Works. A horse and cart stops by the steps in front of the building as 2 women come out to buy something. A girl is on the other side of the cart, a boy on the left with what appears to be […]
Using other postcards and photos and noting things like chimneys, the state of the render falling off and condition of whitewash, I’ve determined by best estimate this rarely seen photo is likely dated 1921 and 1922. Despite photos of an earlier era showing the Shuttle Row Building in worse condition, i believe this whitewash paintwork […]
This photo dates from the late 1880’s or early 1890’s. A charming photo of Kirkton Top Cross. Another source suggests the photo was taken between 1900-1910 but I believe that to be incorrect. The style of the clothes, the fact that the men have beards (that fashion started to fall away by 1900) and other […]