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 […]
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1989 Hamilton Road
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 […]
1989 Kirkton Cross
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, […]
Kirkton flattened 1989
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 […]
Snowfall
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 […]
Pipe Band at Main Street, 1960’s
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 […]
Old Parish “New Church Hall”, 1989
In February 1989 when the old Church Halls were demolished in High Blantyre, work was planned to start on the new Church Hall in the field between the Church […]
End of Old Parish Church Halls, 1989
Blantyre Scouts are pictured outside High Blantyre Old Parish Church Halls. At Main Street during the 1960s, do you know any of the scouts or those pictured? The Church […]
Blantyre Scouts, 1960’s
Pictured here are the Scouts at High Blantyre. In the 1960’s outside the former Old Parish Church Halls during the 1960’s about to go on parade. In the background, The […]