Today’s previously unseen photo is shared by George Hay and is another great photo of the former High Blantyre School. Opened in 1875 at the same day as the school on Glasgow Road, this school on Hunthill Road lasted until the early 1980s. Photographed her here, (i think) during the 1970’s, the front of the […]
Today’s previously unseen photo is one which many people will recognise as the former High Blantyre School on Hunthill Road. Pictured in the snowy 1960’s, the school was by this time over 90 years old. This may stir up some memories for Blantyre residents as they remember back to their childhood and walking to school […]
Pictured here in 1935 or 1936 outside the door of 30 Hunthill Road, is baby Thomas Hay. This is across the road from the primary school on the opposite side and looks down Hunthill Road with the former railway bridge near the top of Stonefield Crescent. Thomas was born in 1935. The Hay family were […]
This is Hunthill Road running left to right. The date is unknown but there’s what appears to be a motorbike in the bottom corner and from the traffic poles, i’d date this photo between the 1930s and late 1960s. It was shared by George Hay whose family lived in former tenement houses just out the […]
On the morning of Thursday 25th June 1908, the wooden signal cabin at Hunthill Railway Junction burned to the ground. The cabin sat on the elevated railway line at High Blantyre and was located where the top of Stonefield Crescent is today. It was an important signal box, being situated on the junction of the […]
How much things have changed in almost 100 years. This photo dates between mid 1925 – 1928 and predates the upgrade of Hunthill Road and Bardykes Road in 1929 or arrival of the steel homes. Two wee boys sit out on the road at the kerbside, playing contently, knowing they would have PLENTY of time, […]
Pictured here in 1935 or 1936 outside the door of 30 Hunthill Road, is baby Thomas Hay. This is across the road from the primary school on the opposite side and looks down Hunthill Road with the former railway bridge near the top of Stonefield Crescent. Thomas was born in 1935. The Hay family were […]