Continuing the series of colour photos of the redevelopment of Glasgow Road. This photo is of Glasgow Road at its junction with the former Alpine Street. The direction is looking towards Burnbank. The people of Blantyre must have had a heavy heart to have seen so many buildings either been demolished by this time, or […]
Previous to March 2015, the earliest map I had of Blantyre was from the year 1654. However, I have recently been passed a copy of a map from 71 years even earlier than that! This Lanarkshire map features Blantyre Parish, with scribbled notes and writing in approximate locations. It dates to 1583, not long after […]
The miners employed on day shift at Priory Colliery, Blantyre, owned by Messrs William Baird & Co., Ltd., had a pleasant on Thursday 6th May 1937. When they arrived at the surface it was intimated to them that the company was to give every worker over 18 years of age a bonus of 10s, and […]
On 17th January 15, Rosemary Harper contacted me with the following message and photo, “Hi Paul, My Husband’s grandfather, Samuel Alexander Brown (1878 – 1921) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. In his later years he ran a shop. I was never able to pin down exactly where the shop was but, have recently established that […]
Until today, I’ve always thought the Milheugh area of the Calder was home to Blantyre’s oldest trees. Some of the trees on that Estate and at Greenhall are absolutely huge, with expansive tree trunks certainly as old as several centuries. However, on Sunday 2nd November 2014, whilst out walking , I was forced to conclude […]
A wonderful photograph of Blantyre Priory taken in 1920 by Robert MacLeod (Snr). I’ve scanned it in in High Resolution , which can be clicked upon to enlarge it and see the detail. Incredibly, a lot of the structure remains then, by comparison to the few stones there today. Blantyre Priory was founded in the […]
Back in May 2014, Harry Doyle emailed me his research into Blantyre Priors. i.e He had compiled a list of all the known head Priors at Blantyre Priory from the year 1296 to 1567. There is a rumour in Blantyre that many of the Priors were buried near the Priory itself, often under the trees […]