This little amusing story made a newspaper snippet in December 1894. Worth retelling here if only to put a smile on faces. A Blantyre collier’s wife was walking to the pit one slushy, damp morning that month. Her intention was to get to the pit to give her husband a piece for lunch. At High […]
Following the recent story about the road bridge near the Priory Bridge, here are more photos kindly shared by Alex Rochead. Built in 1928, the road to Halfway runs over the top of this, the bridge out of view from traffic. Alex told me, “These photos of the road bridge were taken many years ago […]
This photo was issued as a press release during the late 1920’s to show the danger of the bad bend at Spittal, prior to the road re-alignment work. The road leaving Blantyre crosses over the Priory Bridge where the vehicle is, an area now situated in the middle of woodland. The road in the foreground […]
At New year 1935, within an unfortunate period of just 24 hours, three little Blantyre children separately were involved in motor accidents. The reports were all matter of fact ,even eluding to the children’s carelessness, but given that it was the first few days of the New Year, and the sheer lack of breath tests, […]
A fire at one of the main haulage roadways at Priory Colliery, Blantyre, near Glasgow, which was discovered on Tuesday 1st October 1935, proved more serious than at first supposed. The fire raged for 2 days. Fifty men with fire extinguishers laboured strenuously fighting the flames, but early on the 3rd October, it was decided to seal […]
Now, I don’t particularly want to be getting into a habit of documenting Blantyre’s Public toilets, but this one was lost on me. There, on a 1936 map, at the bottom of Stonefield Road is a public toilet, to the right of where Mickey’s Cafe was. I was quite surprised to see that. I can’t […]
2014 My own photo taken mid September. Pictured are Beech Nuts at the side of the road, Stoneymeadow road, High Blantyre Junction with Dalton. Beech is a fairly common hedgerow plant in the UK. Largely deciduous, the nuts appearing in Summer to Autumn are about 15mm long, forming 3 sides. The seeds are bitter to […]