This fantastic photo from a hundred years ago or so is the former “Barrack” at High Blantyre. Officially named “Forrest Place” the tenement buildings were once located just off Main Street, just behind where Jinxy’s Bakery is today. Nicknamed, “The Barracks’, it was not built well in the 1880’s and only lasted until the early […]
This charming scene is High Blantyre Main Street in the 1920’s. Children play near the kerbline outside the former Apothecary (chemist). Looking eastwards, some of the houses at the back are still there today. The trees on the left would now be where family shopper is. The tenement on the left is no longer there […]
Continuing our look at Kirkland Place, the former double storey tenement on Main Street. The final few shops during the 1920s pictured on the left were Andrew Gilmours grocers on the far left. A woman with a baby in a shawl stands at 80 Main Street which in the mid 1920s was Daniel Dow’s Butchers […]
How about this for a fantastic photo! The 1920’s and a little boy sits on the pavement staring into the High Blantyre Post Office at 84 Main Street in Kirkland Place. This tenement was on Main Street near the corner of Cemetery Road. The postbox is missing from 1910’s photos and was likely added in […]
I’ve got LOADS of new photos to show you from the 60, 70s and 80s over the coming months, courtesy of George Hay. Like this great photo, taken around 1980 or 81. It is of course Main Street looking west. The junction of Cemetery Road is on the right, the tenements in the foreground, no […]
This photo is a zoomed in part of a lovely postcard from the 1920’s. Pictured is the former Commercial Bank at the corner of Main Street and Cemetery Road. The Bank was part of a double storey tenement named ‘Kirkland Place‘ (not to be confused with Kirklea Cottage or Kirklea Place, the terraced houses on […]
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 […]