I DO LOVE a photo with no date! Being sent undated photos is like a little challenge to me, to try to close down the decade the photo was taken, or even possibly find out the year. I’d seen this photo of Douglas Street before in the late Neil Gordon’s book back in 2004. […]
Although I had a copy of this photo, Sandy Wilkie recently sent me a better resolution version, which I was able to zoom in on and pick out more detail. Thought previously by the late Neil Gordon to be the 1880’s in High Blantyre’s Douglas Street, I’ve since concluded the photo as being 1892. […]
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 […]
Strangely, this scene is still very familiar today, despite it being almost 30 years ago. Pictured is Hamilton Road leading out of High Blantyre, the church just out of view on the right hand side. The tree is a little bit larger now in the kirkyard, but even back then was still impressive. However, […]
Back to 1989 in this photo. The Church Hall at Kirkton, High Blantyre had been demolished earlier in the year and by the Autumn, the site was flourishing…..with weeds, some of the clearance still to take place. This was around the time just before the widening of Hunthill Road. In the background is Carrigans […]
When I first saw this photo it was difficult to picture where in Blantyre it was. However, putting into context, its around 1989 and taken from the Disaster Monument at Kirkton, High Blantyre looking northwards across to where Kirk Care now is today. At a time before the care home was built, gone are the […]
We have some snow in Blantyre today! Around 4 inches has fallen so far. Here’s the wintry scene last night at High Blantyre as it started, shared here by Stephen Speirs.
These photos are from the 1960’s. Taken on High Blantyre’s Main Street, the buildings in the background are the Masonic Buildings and the little one storey cottage now derelict but still standing. The 2 storey tenements in the foreground, now demolished. The pipe band marches westwards back up to High Blantyre Old Parish Halls. […]