Continuing our look at new ‘old photos’. This time Auchentibber formal Gardens, from the 1910’s around the former Quoiting Green. White, picket fences around the sports ground, the tearoom and inn at the background. This was a popular place for sports for miners after their work and a nice place for any family to visit. […]
At a time even before the Auchentibber Inn, existed an earlier pub nearby to that location, at Auchentibber. The Peasweep Public House was located on Parkneuk Road, just beyond the turn off for Auchentibber Road. On the same side as the later War memorial, it was the first building beyond that location, to the south. The […]
Isn’t it great when you can get to a point in historical research of starting to recognise people that lived a 100 years ago! That happened to me recently, when I saw this photo of the Auchentibber Inn (old name Auchintibber). Pictured between 1905 – 1908 when the Inn was newly renovated, two men stand […]
A previously unpublished photo taken around 1910. Here’s the Auchintibber Inn, pictured in the best clarity seen yet for this building. Photographed by Main Street man, David Ritchie this pub sat at the corner of Auchentibber Road and Sydes Brae (close to where the war memorial ended up). The photo is clear enough to see […]
Another previously unseen photo has been shared here by Alex Bowie. This time around 1908 photographed at the back of the Auchentibber Inn, Sydes Brae. Developed from the glass plate negative, this clear photo captures the back of the Auchentibber Inn (which is pictured on the far left). JB Struthers was innkeeper at the time. […]
Thanks to early photography, you may already have seen some photos of the 1870s and 1880’s tenements and various shops along Glasgow Road. However, before the Collieries were sunk and before the advent of Blantyre’s Coal Industry and indeed long before these tenements existed, other properties ran along Glasgow Road, sometimes congregated beside each other, […]