Staying with 1980 and just off Glasgow Road, This is the site cleared for Devlin Grove. Glasgow Road is out the picture to the left, The crane in the background building the Sports Centre in the park. Who remembers the blue bank huts and cabins? A temporary measure until the RBOS could locate themselves in […]
Our suggestion that there was a stable or small field opposite the Toll House on Glasgow Road is an interesting one and needed further investigation. At a time before any elderly recollections and not previously written about, this book explores these old 19th Century group of buildings, which during the 1850’s were the only buildings […]
Pictured here in the 1930s are visitors to the African Hut, reconstructed in the grounds of David Livingstone Centre. The hut was a reconstruction of the place where David Livingstone died, whilst in Africa in 1873. This was part of the original tourist attractions when the centre opened on 5th October 1929 and was located where the […]
In November 1940, the county council were forced to issue a statement about the provision of Air raid shelters. The County A.R.P. Controller (Mr W.H. Rodger,) in a report to the County Council, stated that the Government having meantime suspended the delivery of Anderson Steel air-raid shelters forced a situation where the Ministry of Home […]
This photo dates from 1904 which featured in a brochure published by Gilmours of Glasgow Road. The brochure contained several excellent Blantyre related photos, which have been scanned now in high resolution. Featured is the Hermitage, or Hermits hut, which was located in Calderwood Glen, just beyond Auchentibber, on the Blantyre side of the River […]