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Thanks to Robert Brownlie who has photoshopped this picture, by overlaying the Kirkton area as it is today, with an old picture taken in exactly the same location, one hundred years earlier! Robert’s expert overlay creates a scene putting the demolished buildings into context as to where they were originally sited in High Blantyre’s Main Street. […]
What happens when you merge a 1923 postcard of Stonefield Road, with a recent picture in 2014? Well, you get the whole change to the road, put entirely in context and chance to look through the keyhole , as to what it used to be like. Thanks to the skills of Robert Brownlie, this animated […]
I’m delighted to share an Animated picture that has kindly been created by Photoshop expert, Robert Brownlie! Robert has skillfully taken an old 1880 picture of Milheugh Mills at the bottom of the Pech Brae and merged it with the current 2014 photo, to put the old buildings firmly into a modern context. You can […]
You may have seen a few photos on this website that overlay parts of old photos on to modern photos, to put certain buildings and features in to context of where they used to be? I like to call them overlays. Once such clever photo has been sent to me recently by Robert Brownlie who […]
This wonderful old picture was taken at a time when photography was a new, emerging technology. Unbelievably, it was taken in our very own Douglas Street in 1880 (thats over 130 years ago!) and may be amongst the old photos of Blantyre. Douglas Street, for those not familiar, is a main artery in Blantyre now, […]