Dyesholm Cottage – or Dysholm Cottage can be dated back to at least 1747, being shown on Roys Military Map of that year, although it is likely to be even older. The cottage sat in an isolated position out with Blantyre Parish in Cambuslang Parish, just over the boundary at the Rotten Calder River. […]
Thanks to Alistair Morrow for sharing these two photos captured in May 2006. Accurately dated they give good evidence when the new flats at Blantyre Works were built. The flats were built in a style very sympathetic to the architecture that exists on nearby buildings, including Shuttle Row. Actually, I quite like these flats and […]
A couple of photographs taken from similar vantage points, but 60 or 70 years apart. The first is from the 1950’s showing the viewpoint back to the Wages Building and the David Livingstone Centre, taken from the David Livingstone memorial Bridge. This photo dating sometime after 1952 – 1960 shows the ragged edge of the […]
Pictured here in the 1880’s is Blantyre Works. This rubbing from an engraving shows the Village Mills in all their splendid glory. It gives an immediate sense of how busy this community must have been to work, stay in and play in this area.
This lovely photo has no date, but likely taken in the 1920s or 1930s. Pictured is the Pey Brig, (The Suspension bridge), which was built in 1852 and demolished in 1949. This is pictured from Blantyre side of the River Clyde looking across to Bothwell. A beautiful, tranquil scene, surprisingly very green given the location […]
Pictured in 1915, from William Low, Glasgow postcard series is Blantyre Works Mills.The scene looks idyllic, but the mills had actually stopped working over 20 years earlier, and these buildings represented a legacy that left many people unemployed. They quickly fell into disrepair and were only partially used thereafter , until their eventual demolition in […]
A wonderful old postcard of Low Blantyre’s “Pey Brig” or “Toll Bridge” and even known as the “Swing Brig”. The iron bridge spanned between Bothwell and Blantyre at the site of the old Mills on the banks of the River Clyde. Don’t let others ever tell you there were just 2 toll booths in Blantyre! […]