High Blantyre is the location of today’s article. Another comparison of old and new. This is Priestfield Street junction with Main Street (directly across from the entrance to the park). The McLean Brothers are lined up with their workers and carts ready to start their deliveries of aerated water all over Blantyre. Their business was […]
The McLean Brothers stand with their workers at Priestfield Street, the large tree instantly recognisable (large even then in 1910). This photo, some 110 years old has had colour added by Scotland Colourised, the service available on facebook which will take any of your submitted black and white photos and colour them within 48 hours […]
Miss Jean S McLean of LochRyan Cottage, 276 Main Street, High Blantyre signs the register after her wedding at Blantyre Old Parish Church to Mr. Alexander McClean, who lived nearby at 13 Park Crescent. Jean was a teacher at West Coats School in Cambuslang and her family owned the newsagents at High Blantyre. Whats […]
A few more Blantyre weddings from 1978 for you all! Hamilton girl Miss Lynda Marshall married Ian Gilmour of 12 Stonefield Place in 1978 in Hamilton North Church. Also that year, Elaine McLean of Hamilton married John Chalmers of 3 Spruce Avenue, Blantyre. The couple wed in Hillhouse Parish Church. and finally , happy Blantyre […]
Back in May 2017, I had the pleasure of meeting Betty and Alex Mclean who dropped in at my Blantyre home whilst on holiday from Canada, whilst visiting family nearby. We spent an hour in the garden talking about Blantyre and Canada and it was wonderful to put faces to names, after emailing back and […]
How we take things for granted these days, like being able to listen to the radio for instance. The first case in Hamilton Sheriff Court ever to be heard under the Control of Wireless Telegraphy Act. 1904, concerned James McLean, a miner, Greenside Street, Blantyre in December 1926. James was fined 20s for installing […]
On 7th November 1909, a terrible fire took place at Douglas Street, burning down a tenement building and taking the lives of 2 people. The sensational commentary was told in some detail in local newspapers and is retold here. Attached also, for the first time seen online in this clarity from 1910 -1915 is […]