In 1978, it was agreed in March that some money would be put into the 1978/1979 Council budget to at least let the long awaited Blantyre Sports Centre get started. The budget for that year had just £126,000 set aside to get the work started. The latest council estimate for the whole building at that […]
As new year approaches, nothing signifies “out with the old and in with the new” more in Blantyre than the transition which happened to our town in the late 1970s. This amazing picture demonstrates this very well, the past and future combined. Pictured in Winter 1981 is the last tenement in Blantyre being demolished, […]
To be published on 3rd December 2016 Michael Barrett sent me this real interesting plan of Glasgow Road. Drawn up by the County Council in 1977, it shows some proposals for developing Glasgow Road, i.e what was to happen after the tenements were knocked down. However, what is quite unique about this drawing, is the […]
Markets – When Blantyre was made a Burgh in 1599, the weekly market was fixed to take place on a Thursday and an annual fair was to be granted on 14th October “for buying and selling of flesh, fish, oxen, sheep, meal, peas, corn, barley, linen and woollen cloth skins and all other goods, […]
Continuing the series of colour photos of the redevelopment of Glasgow Road. This photo is of Glasgow Road at its junction with the former Alpine Street. The direction is looking towards Burnbank. The people of Blantyre must have had a heavy heart to have seen so many buildings either been demolished by this time, or […]