This photo dates from approximately 1954 and shows High Blantyre Main Street. Pictured from the corner of Priestfield (roughly where the Apollo Bar) is today, the view looks Eastwards back towards Causeystanes and Auchinraith. A few things like McLeans newsagents, the large Priestfield Tree and Blakelys pub will still be recognisable, but other features like […]
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Hunthill Road pictured about 1915
A rarely seen photograph of Hunthill Road taken between 1910 – 1920. A girl stands at the side of the road, with the pavement only on one West side. The small weavers cottages are on the right (some of which still exist today). Long before tarmacadam road, a dog stands on a traffic free dirt […]
1908 A Family postcard
This postcard is incredibly over 100 years old! It was sent to our great grandpa from Ayr by mysterious “HR”. Sent to John Duncan with the address simply put as “John Duncan, Greenburn Cottage, High Blantyre”, this was the location some of our family lived at. The card depicts the interior of poet Rabbie Burns […]