Here’s a rare sight! The building of the Blantyre Sports Centre. Taken in 1981, year or so before it opened. Homes in the background are John Street. The tenement to the right was one of the final buildings to be demolished on Glasgow Road redevelopment of the late 70s and early 80s. The building of […]
This is a great little booklet highlighting the facilities at Blantyre Sports Centre immediately after it opened in 1982. The booklet also lists all the prices, which looked affordable even for those times. As far back as August 1972, consideration was being given to the provision of a pool and sports hall in Blantyre. However, […]
In 1978, it was agreed in March that some money would be put into the 1978/1979 Council budget to at least let the long awaited Blantyre Sports Centre get started. The budget for that year had just £126,000 set aside to get the work started. The latest council estimate for the whole building at that […]