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. […]
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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 […]
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 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, […]
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, 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 […]