Another wonderful painting from 1810 by Hugh William Williams. Just off Priory Playing fields. The scene well before the time of coal mining. In the 18th Century, mid 1700’s this area of Blantyre was known as “Letrigland” a name now forgotten. This looks like the track down to that forgotten farm, which later became the […]
Blantyre Project reader, Davey recently shared these photos showing the current condition of the underside of the Priory Bridge. Situated just off Glasgow Road and a little out of sight, I have to admit, I was quite shocked seeing the photo of the cobbled side which looks to have seriously deteriorated in the last 10 […]
Going back next to this smashing picture from 1927/1928. Pictured is the old road at Priory Bridge. It may be difficult to put this in context as its so completely changed. The modern road avoided this dangerous S bend and from the foreground heads now out the picture to the right. Back then, traffic including […]
They say if you want to get ahead, get a hat. That certainly happened for 2 girls from Priory Bridge, who joined up with 2 boys who had also made Easter crafts! The four children had won the 1980 Priory Bridge Residents Easter Parade. Pictured are Gary Crawford, Shona Fullerton, Scott Clarke and Susan […]
Genuinely asking. I don’t know the answers. Can you help…… 1. What year did the former 2 storey stone TENEMENT immediately next to David Livingstone Memorial Church get demolished? It opened out on to Glasgow Road, where now the modern flats are. 2. Who owned the land prior to 1971 that the PRIORY BRIDGE Housing […]
These 2 photos were taken in 2014 and show the ironwork on the Priory Bridge, just off Glasgow Road. The redundant bridge over the River Calder isn’t in the best condition and these iron stanchions supporting the upper extended deck and parapets look to be fairly rusty. The ironwork was placed when the bridge was […]
Following the recent story about the road bridge near the Priory Bridge, here are more photos kindly shared by Alex Rochead. Built in 1928, the road to Halfway runs over the top of this, the bridge out of view from traffic. Alex told me, “These photos of the road bridge were taken many years ago […]