In early June 2015, Blantyre man Jim Cochrane sent over this photo, saying it was in his family photo collection and is allegedly of a shop in Blantyre. The date and location are unknown. Despite the gentle slope on the pavement, I have shown this to several people and we don’t believe it to be […]
Tenants of the house above a shop had to make a hurried escape, when fire broke out in a fish and chip shop at 239 Glasgow Road, Blantyre on Friday 11th October 1935. (Reporters had this wrong stating 249 Glasgow Road) /Within a few minutes the inside of the shop was a raging furnace. The […]
On Sunday 18th January 2015, I was visited by George Park and his elderly mother and her sister at my home in High Blantyre. We shared a great afternoon where I was intrigued by some of the stories and tales they were able to tell me. George’s mother is in her 90s and originally from […]
On 17th January 15, Rosemary Harper contacted me with the following message and photo, “Hi Paul, My Husband’s grandfather, Samuel Alexander Brown (1878 – 1921) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. In his later years he ran a shop. I was never able to pin down exactly where the shop was but, have recently established that […]
On 12th January Lisa Ashford-Potter contacted me with the following message, “Hi, I wanted to share a photo of my great grandmother Margaret Wilson (maiden name) McDonald (1st marriage) Potter (2nd marriage). She owned a shop in Auchentibber which I think you have featured on your page previously. The photo I’m talking about is a […]
Pictured here in 1919 is Andrew Gilmours shop, Glasgow Road. The shop was on Glasgow Road almost opposite the end of Merry’s Rows. From the left is Elizabeth Neil, Lizzie Jamieson, Agnes Dunsmore, Tam Naismith (Manager), Mary Shanks and Agnes Kirkland. The photo belongs to Gordon Dunsmuir and is reprinted here with his permission. The […]