An alarming accident happened at Main Street, High Blantyre on the evening of Monday 7th May 1906. Motor cars on the roads in that year was something fairly new and rare and when one of the contraptions overturned, it caused quite a stir. The motor car belonged to Mr. William Hamilton, an engineer of Uddingston. […]
Early on the morning of Tuesday 26th February 1918, a tragic and distressing accident occurred in the Saw Dust Mill in the Village, Blantyre. A young girl who was employed there, named Euphemia Ward, had occasion during her working day, to pass by the end of a deep shaft which had a hammer like mechanism […]
Roberts Land On the western side of Herbertson Street, aside from the manse and Co-op buildings (explored shortly), the only other buildings were at Roberts Land. Contrary to what you may have read by others, there were no tenements located in Herbertson Street near its junction with Auchinraith Road. The Roberts family came […]
Pictured is High Blantyre Railway Station, just off Craigmuir Road. The railway stopped to foot passengers in 1945, but this photo dates a little earlier, possibly from 1930s. Photographed from the pedestrian bridge, the scene looks Southwards towards Sydes Brae. On the left you can see Craigmuir road rising gently, the Old Parish Church just […]
Highlighted in blue on this 1910 map, is a little window in High Blantyre, just off Main Street within Adams Sawmills. Strange subject perhaps for an article, but this has a nice story attached to it in future years. By the 1960s, the sawmills had a different use. Fellow Blantyre history enthusiast Gordon Cook told […]
On the left of this mid 1920’s photo is “Adam’s Sawmill”, the business of William Adam and his brother. The photo looks eastwards along Main Street. The entrance to the “Adam C&W” sawmill was between the lampost and the end of the building, not to be confused by the gates in the foreground, which lead […]