Although a little blurry, this is one of my favourite photos of High Blantyre, if only as I believe it is perhaps the oldest photo of any Blantyre street. Exclusively put online here for the first time, it was taken in 1869 and shows Main Street looking eastwards. To give you an indication of […]
Beggs Building was a small single storey tenement building, which originally stood on the south side of Main Street not far from a location across from the entrance to Cemetery Road. Some confusion exists around this building, where a previous Blantyre history book suggested this small tenement was known as Lint Butts, but I can […]
Lint Butts was a small detached tenement which formerly stood on Main Street , directly across from Cemetery Road. With address 267 Main Street, the property had a slate roof and was made of stone, with a large rectangular yard at the back. Bill Graham who was brought up in Blantyre, told me, “Hi my […]