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David McIntosh recently handed in this poem to me. David was born in Rosendale at number 3 in 1942, so he could resonate with the contents of this poem. The poem is about Rosendale written in 2004 by former Blantyre resident, Brian Cummiskey. It was Brian’s first poem and this version below has auld Scots […]
Rosendale Place Rosendale Place was a former large 3-storey tenement, situated just off Glasgow Road at the corner of Auchinraith Road, commanding an elevated vantage point above and to the rear of Chamber’s Buildings and Caldwell Buildings. In the 20th Century, across was toad was The Horse Shoe Pub (Kelly’s Bar or Kelly’s Corner […]
Caitlyn Clarkson emailed me recently from her home in Canada, commenting, “You have created a wonderful website, the photographs are amazing and create such a sense of time and space. My great great grandparents lived in Blantyre for quite some time. They were Helen Miller and James Hogg. Helen Miller who married James Hogg (coal miner). Helen […]
I’ve been very quick at retelling stories of drownings at the River Clyde. Sadly, this has happened too many times that I could mention. However, as much as those tragic people need to be remembered, what about the heroic tales of rescues and where the outcome was positive. The tales of Blantyre’s heroes over […]
A Painting taken from a 1971 photo of Rosendale, Low Blantyre. The Blantyre building has been captured in watercolour by an unknown artist and shows Glasgow Road in the foreground. Today, the scene would be much of the Gavin Watson Printers building. (formerly Reids) On social media: Sheila Park I love this site. I just […]
I like this photo of Glasgow Road at Craighead. Its now 60 years old, the aerial view taken in 1955. I’ve zoomed in on the photo quite a bit which has lost some of the resolution, but has also picked up some of the detail. The picture first and foremost serves to show Chalmers Building, […]
This 1955 aerial photo shows clearly the fairground was in town! Situated in spare ground between Auchinraith Road and the railway line at Springwells, the fair was operated by travelling folk and visited Blantyre on a regular basis. The vacant ground was immediately behind Rosendale. I can remember my mother telling me about her visits […]
This wonderful picture is from February 1968. The residents of Rosendale Building, Low Blantyre went to the County Buildings in Hamilton to complain about the state of the housing block and the delay in getting them re-housed. Mothers of young children complained that the chimneys were ready to fall, there were no toilets in many […]
Pictured here in this mass produced postcard, during the early 1970’s is ‘Rosendale’. This was a 3 storey, well constructed tenement building, which when first erected was very visible and different from other homes in Springwell due to it’s red sandstone. The building served as excellent accommodation for many, many Blantyre families but sadly around […]