Looking through my own photos from the last decade, I found this one, still a favourite. Taken by myself in 2015, this is the Kirkyard at Kirkton, (High Blantyre). The Hamilton Advertiser picked up on it in June 2015 and used it for a feature at the time. I remember sitting with my laptop open […]
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1960’s High Blantyre Fields
More previously unseen photos, courtesy of George Hay. This one dates from the 1960’s and is taken from a position above what is now Hillhouse Road. It looks over towards what was then a relatively new housing estate at Waverley Terrace and Kirkton Avenue. The Photo was taken at the top of the former Dixon’s […]
Motor Car Accident, 1906
An alarming accident happened at Main Street, High Blantyre on the evening of Monday 7th May 1906. Motor cars on the roads in that year was something fairly new and rare and when one of the contraptions overturned, it caused quite a stir. The motor car belonged to Mr. William Hamilton, an engineer of Uddingston. […]
Kirkton, Near High Blantyre Cross
How about this for an amazing photo! This is Main Street in High Blanyre, photographed from the middle of the road at High Blantyre Cross looking east down Main Street. What’s remarkable about this 1890’s photo is everything you see in this picture is no longer here. The people. The fire hydrant, the old Kirk […]
1892 Douglas St Full photo
1892 Douglas Street at Kirkton
1989 Tenements at Kirkton
It’s not hard to see from this picture why the tenements at Kirkton were past their sell by date. Needing rewired, replumbed, damp, subsiding and unfit for habitation, these 2 storey tenements were all but derelict by 1990. I’m sure many people will remember the shops there near the cross. The bins in the […]