Duncan Slater shared this family photo earlier this week. From 1937, this picture was taken at his dad’s plot at the former “Merry’s Raws” before the family all moved to the corner of the brand new Priory Street in the same year. As such, this photo represents the end of an era and start of […]
Duncan Slater shared this picture recently. He told me, “This picture is of Mum, my sister Sadie and myself taken in September 1938 when we moved into our new home at 1 Priory Street. We moved from Merry’s Raws.” The houses in Priory Street were not long built by that year. Little did anybody know […]
These former three 2 storey stone tenements were located behind the Stonefield Tavern building and had their eastern frontage on to a field (which later became Priory Street). Being so old and demolished for many decades, they’re often forgotten about and largely unknown to people alive today. They occupied a north to south […]
In 1967 as political figures vowed for Blantyre votes, Mrs. Winnifred (Winnie) Ewing of Blantyre SNP campaigned at the corner of Priory Street, and as these wonderful photos show, youth listened! Winifred Margaret Ewing (b1929) is a Scottish nationalist, lawyer and prominent Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who was a Member of Parliament (Hamilton […]
Priory Street dates from 1936 and runs in a northeast to southwest position linking Glasgow Road to Calder Street. At its junction with Glasgow Road, nearby stands the Stonefield Tavern. With the slum clearance of the mid 1930’s demolishing many of the most northerly homes of Dixon’s Rows, a County Council programme of […]
Three more Blantyre weddings for you, this time from 1967. First is Morag Russell and Robert Crothers. Morag lives at 11 Fir Grove, Viewpark, but it was Robert who was a Blantyre man. When he married, he was living at 1 Priory Street, Blantyre. Staying with 1967, Miss Moira Lee of 164 Victoria Street married […]
Margaret Campbell shared this lovely family photo taken during the early 1940s. Margaret told me, “This is one of Mum & Dad taken from 1 Priory Rd with the old air raid shelter. The photo was taken during the Second World War when they were courting. The roof line of buildings behind were the shops […]