Some stories I need to be careful off, as 1979, is a little “modern” and where high jinks end in arrest, I have no wish to embarrass anybody or dwell on things that happened 40 years ago. SO. In this instance, I won’t name the rather well known man in Blantyre, who once lived in […]
Another great photo of Stoneymeadow Junction. With view beyond up to the “Lady Nancy” fields, this is the junction at Stoneymeadow as if coming from Dechmont. On the right, the former Boyd’s Farm by this era given itself over to a being a little shop. The shop on the right are now demolished, the land […]
Who remembers the shop at Stoneymeadow junction or the BP filling station next to it? At a time before the EK Expressway, this was on the main road leading up to East Kilbride. The houses still stand today. The scene is either 1950’s or 1960s. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for […]
Pictured here in the 1960’s is the former, disused railway at Auchinraith Junction. Looking northwards, the chimneys of Whistelberry Colliery are in the background. This railway track is no longer there and today is the Springwells sliproad coming off Glasgow Road on to the East Kilbride Expressway near Lidl. How very different this scene […]
A railway spur was opened in Blantyre in 1882, which connected High Blantyre to Low Blantyre. This was done so that the Caledonian Railway could operate a direct service from Glasgow to Strathaven, via High Blantyre and Hamilton at Little Earnock. At the north end of Blantyre, the railway branched off the main line and […]
This photo shows the former Stoneymeadow Tollhouse, and subsequently later, the Boyds Farm around 1905. Around the 1870’s, the Boyds had sold up and left for New Zealand, and the property no longer afterwards was a working farm. The building located at the junction of Stoneymeadow Road and Dalton was by this time, a most […]
Pictured here in mid 1970s, is the railway bridge at Glasgow Road being demolished. No longer in service or required, the bridge connected Hamilton West Station to High Blantyre Station and was situated at the corner of Whistleberry Road and Glasgow Road. It was being removed to make way for the new East Kilbride Expressway. […]