This photo is from 1955. Taken 62 years ago, it’s somewhat of a coincidence, for that may just be the very number of the bus turning down into Stonefield Crescent. This wintery scene is captured from a garden in Hunthill Road and looks up towards the Cornerstone, when once a railway bridge crossed over […]
A nicely colourised postcard of Kirkton Cross showing Hamilton Road looking west. This is High Blantyre in 1915. A child stands outside the public house, behind him is the Church Halls, Adams Building and Mayberry Buildings, then Adams Sawmill entrance beside the railway bridge. On the left beyond the kirk cemetery wall is the water […]
Elizabeth Weaver has shared this family photo, taken outside 104 Victoria Street in the mid 1950’s. She told me, “The car belonged to our Uncle John Scott’s – Uncle David Scott giving it a helping hand there I think! Don’t know who the weans are! Possibly 1956 when i got my first camera.” The boarding led […]
Between 1931 and 1935, Blantyre’s railway bridges were replaced by contractors William Arroll. The existing iron bridges were demolished and removed and new iron bridges of a stronger design, installed. The first bridge to be completed was the railway bridge crossing over Glasgow Road. Pictured here in September 1931 are William Arroll managers out inspecting the completed […]
A great photo from 1931, showing the Railway Bridge being replaced over Glasgow Road, Low Blantyre. The photo is taken from roughly where the EK Expressway is now and you can see Glasgow Road running from left to right in the picture. The large crane in the background would be sitting roughly where LIDL is […]
Donald Mathieson of Glasgow Road, Blantyre wrote in to the Sunday Post on 22nd December 1935, telling this heart warming story. “The other day at the spot where the Lanarkshire County Authorities are erecting a new bridge to replace the old one, I witnessed remarkable little drama. An anxious-faced woman and her little girl, who was […]
Two remarkable photos taken in 1963 of the abandoned Craighead Railway Viaduct. Both photos were taken by John Robin, famed for taking photos of a full series of local bridges. Both photos look Northwards towards Bothwell, photographed from the Blantyre side. The first shows the abandoned Railway iron structure. The second, is a rarer photograph […]