It’s difficult now to envisage how High Blantyre looked at a time before the EK Expressway and in an era of coal mining activity. This photo however, of High Blantyre is a good reminder of Blantyre’s former industrial landscape. Taken in the 1950’s from a vantage point of Craigmuir Road behind the Old Parish Church, […]
Local man Willie McClelland messaged me recently saying, “I was born in 16 Sydes Brae, first cottage on the right going into the yard. Hoping some readers may have a photo of the house in previous years. Hoping that you might have a photo of the four white posts that used to sit half way […]
Staying around 1975 for the time being with this photo of High Blantyre. Putting this in context, the road in the foreground is the start of Hillhouse Road, which once forked off Douglas Street. This is before the opening of the Expressway and this photo represents the advance earthworks and work undertaken to build up […]
My old 1859 map highlights a feature in High Blantyre now long gone. The old manse house, in the grounds of High Blantyre Parish Church had extensive orchards, not just around the house, but stretching out South in fields of fruit trees reaching as far back as the bottom of Sydes Brae. The orchards were […]