Back to the 1990’s with this photo which is of course Blantyre Police Station. Now in 2024, some 115 years old. Blantyre Police moved here to Victoria Street from their former police station on Glasgow Road. The building served not only as the station and gaol, but also contained the police officers houses and offices.
I noticed the other day that plans are underway to turn Lesmahagow Police Station into houses. However, what perked my interest was the photo of that police station, which reminded me at once of the former Police Station at High Blantyre. When putting photos of them both beside each other for comparison, clearly the buildings […]
High Blantyre Police Station opened on the afternoon of Wednesday 10th May 1950 at Main Street, High Blantyre. However, it had been planned for some time, for according to the 1930 valuation roll, the County Council had already at that time secured the land from nearby Croftfoot. The station sat on the north side of Main […]
For quite some time prior to 1907, the Blantyre population had heard of a rumour that a new police station was to be built. Finally in October 1907, the news appeared in papers confirming that the rumour was true and that week officials had gone to Blantyre to discuss finding a site. A meeting took […]
If you stop for a second at the junction of Victoria Street and Calder Street, you may just be able to appreciate how beautiful a building the Police Station is. Now think back to August 1908 when that Summer , the residents of Blantyre marvelled at this beautiful, new and grand public building rising from […]
In the last weekend of August 1908 a bizarre situation took place in Blantyre, an unusual occurrence when the police had to announce there were no prisoners in the Blantyre jail! The former jail at the Police Station on Glasgow Road (pictured) had empty cells, something which made headlines, given a more usual occupancy. However, […]
Origins of Victoria Street Unlike the other streets leading south we’ve explored so far and with exception of Auchinraith Road, Victoria Street joined Low to High Blantyre, cutting right through Blantyre and has many homes and public buildings. During the 19th Century until the mid 1870’s, small track led up a slight gradient […]