This is Hunthill Road running left to right. The date is unknown but there’s what appears to be a motorbike in the bottom corner and from the traffic poles, i’d date this photo between the 1930s and late 1960s. It was shared by George Hay whose family lived in former tenement houses just out the […]
This is an extract from an old charter dated 24th July 1557 which proves Blantyre had a Castle, right in the middle of it, where Janefield Place is now, near Stonefield Crescent and Hunthill Road. Taken from the Glasgow protocol records, there’s an intriguing early mention of Blantyre and specifically of a lost and forgotten Castle […]