Noticing something peculiar on the Blantyre 1747 map, I was intrigued to see a place clearly marked very prominently in Blantyre, that is no longer there. Nothing too unusual about that for there were many houses that are now gone. However, this place wasn’t just a house, but was an AREA of Blantyre that has […]
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1747 Low Blantyre Map
This section of the 1747 Blantyre map provides a wonderful insight into how sparsely populated Blantyre was at that time. Remember, around this time, the population of Blantyre was merely around 500 people. This was 40 years before the arrival of the mills and at the time of this map, was a very sleepy, rural […]
The 1747 Blantyreferme map
Perhaps the oldest known map of the topography and detail of Blantyre’s buildings has arrived with me recently and i’m absolutely excited to see the detail on it. Already, it has clarified a few mysteries and confirmed in several instances that buildings existed at least at that time. Over the next few weeks, i’ll be […]
High Blantyre 1935 map
A map from a lifetime ago. That is, if a lifetime is more than 80 years. Pictured is High Blantyre in 1935 and what a lot has changed. The picture is worth clicking on to magnify. The town has changed very much. In this era, the High Blantyre Train Station was still there and functional, […]