Continuing our lockdown quiz with this latest photo. Where in Blantyre is this? Here’s a clue. It’s not a house. Answer will be revealed tonight. ** Update. This is the Telephone Exchange at Forrest Street. Built in 1958, it replaced the older telephone exchange across Glasgow Road at Herbertson Street. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. […]
I think this photo was taken in 1980. How utterly unrecognisable this will be to many people but it is of course, Glasgow Road, 40 years ago. Looking westwards, the photo was taken from near the top of the former junction to John Street, before it was realigned. The post Office is on the left, […]
During February 1917, a very large number of people were transferring their savings at the post office into war bonds in aid of the war loan. Miss Stewart at the Blantyre Post Office and her assistants were kept extremely busy, forced to keep open the post office until late hours for much of that month. […]
How about this for a fantastic photo! The 1920’s and a little boy sits on the pavement staring into the High Blantyre Post Office at 84 Main Street in Kirkland Place. This tenement was on Main Street near the corner of Cemetery Road. The postbox is missing from 1910’s photos and was likely added in […]
Here’s a brilliant photo full of character. Two Blantyre gents stand on Glasgow Road outside the former iconic Post Office Building. The chap to the left possibly had nickname ‘old snowy’. I’m unsure who the person on the right is. Do you recognise these men? In the background, the Clydeview Shopping Centre has been built. The […]
Next, a couple of photos of Main Street from the year 2000. Looking west along the street, a busy scene with car parked on the street before the parking bays were added. The scene is quite familiar otherwise. And also, at that same location looking the opposite way. Do you remember McDade’s Licensed Grocers and […]
Makes me feel sad. This is the demolition of the Blantyre Post Office on Glasgow Road, incredibly now 21 years ago! These sort of pictures may not have been interesting at the time, but seeing them 2 decades later invokes feelings of nostalgia. After the building was demolished, several Blantyre people were interested in acquiring […]