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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Late 19th Century owner of Logan’s Pub at Kirkton Cross, High Blantyre , David Logan, relinquished his ownership of his pub, when his daughter Mary Steele (nee Logan) got married to her husband Joseph Steel on 25th April 1906. Prior to this date Mary had helped her father at Logan’s Public House at Kirkton […]
The Causeystones Public House was a 19th Century pub on Broompark Road, near the junction with Main Street. The original date of its construction is unknown, but in 1859, it was owned by Mr. A Gardiner of nearby Priestfield. That same year, an account is given as follows, “A name taken from a number of […]
At a time even before the Auchentibber Inn, existed an earlier pub nearby to that location, at Auchentibber. The Peasweep Public House was located on Parkneuk Road, just beyond the turn off for Auchentibber Road. On the same side as the later War memorial, it was the first building beyond that location, to the south. The […]