It’s Gala Day in Blantyre so we need a fitting post today. The annual children’s gala day hosted by Blantyre Co-operative Society (Ltd.) was held on Saturday 31st July 1917. The weather was ideal for such event and war in Europe did not hamper attendance to any great extent. Close on 7000 people most of […]
Stephen Watson shared this photo. He told me, “I have been told that the building on the left ( looking at it ) is 365 main st, where I was born in 1956. this pic may have been taken before that.” I don’t think I’ve seen this one before. The tenements on the left were […]
Who remembers the Apollo Bar at Main Street, High Blantyre? This picture shows its final years, the “for sale” sign up just after the Millennium, perhaps as late as 2008. For a short time after it became an Indian Restaurant. The building looks in a sorry state now and plans to convert it into shops […]
Charlie Jipson shared this photo with me recently adding, “In the picture of my Granny’s back garden you can see the High Blantyre pit. On the left is my granny Bessie Ingram and on the right is Mrs Murdoch who had the little shop across the road from Nursery Place.” The picture was taken in […]
Here’s a good photo of High Blantyre Main Street taken around 2000. This was before resurfacing and re-kerbing took place and you may recognise some shops no longer there. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors said: Margo Clayton If the blue sign is 256 Main Street, […]
Who remembers the former gap between buildings on High Blantyre main Street near Blakelys? These photos from 2000 show the old billboard that once sat so prominently on Main Street. The gap was closed over in post Millennium years with the building of a brick 2 storey building (not very pretty I have to admit) […]
Next, a couple of photos of Main Street from the year 2000. Looking west along the street, a busy scene with car parked on the street before the parking bays were added. The scene is quite familiar otherwise. And also, at that same location looking the opposite way. Do you remember McDade’s Licensed Grocers and […]
Here’s another piece of land that I think could have been put to good use. The old hardstanding of the former garage on Main Street would have made a perfect carpark for a dozen or so cars, especially when you consider just how many cars park on the pavement when a Masonic meeting is taking […]