This little gem is a previously unseen postcard from 1908 which made its way across the Atlantic to America. Dated by the postmark itself, it shows the magnificent completed St Joseph’s Church on Glasgow Road. The sender of the postcard on the back explains the church was completed just a couple of years earlier. […]
I love this colourised postcard from the 1890’s. Such a quiet rural scene. Taking your horse, unhooking from the cart, down off the Bothwell Road for a drink at the river. A sunny day, the river low, this looks a summer scene as the boys play in the burn, the boundary between Blantyre and […]
This photo is of Blantyre Mills at Blantyre Village Works. The inscription on the postcard states “The Clyde at Livingstone Memorial” suggesting a time after the centre opened in 1929. On the far left appears to be Waterloo Row, which went on fire in January 1928. The Pey Bridge can be seen spanning the Clyde. […]
Just taking some time to start uploading all the Crossbasket photos and cards I collected whilst writing the book about its history. During drafting the book, I managed to amass quite a collection of Crossbasket related photos and cards, some of them quite rare, and a few often not seen in public. This post simply […]
Following on from the recent articles about Priestfield Terrace, the High Blantyre Priestfield Hall recently showed me this nice colorised postcard. Pictured is Priestfield Terrace, possibly around 1930. As with many postcards, things appear slightly different for dramatic effect, and i suspect the background landscape has been altered to appear more “dramatic” or fill the […]
Whilst this postcard of Blantyre Works Mills dates from 1905, I think it depicts a slightly earlier scene. By 1905, the mills had fallen into decline , yet in this postcard, nicely colourised, the scene looks pristine and new, (and effect i think of the colourisation and touching up the photo). The large mill buildings […]
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 […]