More new photos for you. Previously unseen online, these photos from 1972 show a brand new housing estate in High Blantyre. Nicknamed the Jerusalem Houses, it’s easy to see why the flat roofs provided that term to local people. These were brand new family homes and flats, expanding Blantyre significantly building upon former agricultural fields, […]
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Jerusalem Houses, Blantyre in 1993
Pictured here are the flat roofed homes in High Blantyre at Priestfield. Affectionately nicknamed, the Jerusalem homes, they were built in 1969 and 1970 although this particular photo was taken in 1993, before the installation of pitched roofs. It only took a couple of decades to realise this type of roof wasn’t particularly suited to […]


