My history colleague and friend Gordon Cook, kindly provides today’s article which is on the humble beginnings of the Livingstone Memorial Church. Accompanying the words is a lovely colourised postcard from around 1904, showing the church in all its glory and of course the much narrower Glasgow Road. Gordon writes, “With the rapid increase […]
Here’s a view you won’t see often. Photographed from the steeple of the Livingstone Church in 1989 is the view across Blantyre to the north, looking down on to the TWO manses, (Livingstone and St Joseph’s Manses). Looks cold, perhaps the afterwards of prolonged, snowy weather. These prominent houses cannot really be seen from Glasgow […]
Duncan Slater has shared this photo believed to be taken in 1930. Pictured is a presentation of Scout colours and Cub Totem pole to 3rd Blantyre Scouts troop. They’re pictured outside the Livingstone Church on Glasgow Road. The Scout Master was Mr. Donald Dewar. The lady may be a Mrs Thomson. Some other Livingstone Church […]
The Hamilton Advertiser had this story on the Blantyre pages of 2nd January 1932. It tells of welcoming in that year. “It is hoped you had a happy time last night, and made provision for the closing of the “hooses” today. Good morning, Miss 1932, and we hope that you will have in your right […]
Lovely photo of Livingstone Memorial Church. The reliable series of postcards were issued in the early 1900s. This photo dates from 1904, just a year after the trams opened. However, in 1904, the tramlanes had not been extended in Glasgow Road beyond the bottom of Stonefield Road and hence why they do not appear in […]
A photo from the turn of the Millennium taken in 2000 at Glasgow Road. Pictured and shared here by Robert Stewart is the Livingstone Church being renovated, in particular the stone repairs to the steeple. Blantyre has seen a cycle of repairs to its churches. Of note was last year at High Blantyre Old Parish […]