Michael Barrett has shared these photos from the 1980’s of the inside of RG Barret’s Garage workshop at 19 Church Street. A nice photo too of how the outside of the building once looked. The painted block and brick walls, loads of machinery and equipment for auto repairs. According to my notes, this workshop […]
Thank you to Michael Barrett who emailed me a copy of this old lawyer’s letter showing that his father’s business RG Barrett bought 19 Church Street from the liquidators of former Thomas Baxter & Sons in June 1973. Such letters are like gold-dust to a local historian in being able to determine and record accurate […]
Back in March 2016, Michael Barrett messaged me saying, “I am just wondering if you have any old pictures of Church Street in Blantyre (quite near Asda) or Craig Street as it used to be before Asda was built? My dad had a small company R.G.Barrett & Co that he started in 1970 in […]