On the evening of Friday 13th September 1907, a somewhat extraordinary accident occurred at Blantyre’s Glasgow Road when a (tram)car belonging to the Lanarkshire Tramway Company ran into a flock of sheep. The sheep belonged to Mr Alexander M‘William, a flesher (butcher) from Blantyre, and resulted in thirteen of them being killed. It is a miracle […]
A photo next, shared by Drew Semple here a while back. Pictured is a rather busy Glasgow Road from Priory Street, at a time in the 1970s, when it was still open to traffic at its junction with Glasgow Road. In the background, The Broadway Cinema, Stonefield Tavern is still recognisable in the foreground. […]
Glasgow Road in the mid 1960s looking east. The building to the right of the middle of the photo was Agnes Hamiltons, the fruit shop. That little shop has had a long history of owners. After Hamiltons grocers, it was Mauchline Newsagent then Vinces Lombardi’s chip shop then, Mcwilliams grocer shop later to become Gallachers. Just right at the […]