This photo shows the brand new pitched roof put on to the “Doon Inn” Pub on Broompark Road. The roof was built in 2003 contracted to Torrance Roofing & Building in Rutherglen. Prior to this photo, the roof was originally flat. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, […]
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British Workmen’s Public House
The British Workmen’s Public Houses, perhaps designed in the 19th Century to offer an alternative to the rowdy drinking dens of working classes. British Workmen’s Public Houses offered something else other than the bar. The had free reading rooms with newspaper and magazines and there were lots of the them about Central Scotland. At least […]
West End Bar – New Management
Cornerstone Renovation Unveiled
There were some busy pubs in Blantyre on 27th January 2018, but that Saturday evening party was most noticeably happening at High Blantyre, at ‘The Cornerstone‘. The popular pub had been shut in recent weeks up until then, undergoing a complete interior makeover and customers we’re thrilled and excited to see it unveiled that […]
1985 Carrigans (Cornerstone)
Geradline Carrigan Burns kindly shared this photo she took in 1985 at Kirkton Cross. Pictured is Carrigans Public House, complete with the original door at the front corner. (now a window). Geradline told me that the building had been suffering badly from subsidence, much the same as many of the adjacent homes had been […]
The Priory Bar, Blantyre
From my book, “Blantyre Glasgow Road South – The Real Story” by Paul Veverka (c) 2017 Priory Place & The Priory Bar Priory Place was a former 19th and 20th Century building situated at the eastern corner of Glasgow Road and Logan Street junction. It comprised primarily of a popular public house (named the […]
Castle Vaults Pub Burglary
Details became known on Tuesday 25th August 1931 of a daring burglary which occurred at the licensed premises known as the Castle Vaults, Blantyre, on the day before on the Monday afternoon. Castle Vaults Public House is pictured on Glasgow Road at the corner of John Street, a couple of years earlier in this rarer […]