Ive got loads of great, auld Blantyre photos hopefully seen for the first time online, coming here in the next few weeks. Like this one taken from the back windows of houses on Station Road, looking over the public park towards Glasgow Road. Shared here kindly by the Gordon family, this was taken from their […]
This picture has a great deal of familiarity. Allegedly from 1937, it’s Station Road, looking down towards the Village, Blantyre. School children, some barefoot turn into the entrance to St Joseph’s School. Street lighting is electric and some of the homes on the right look fairly new. One thing which has dramatically changed though, is […]
In early 1902, there was not a street or road in Blantyre which was causing so much comment and complaint to authorities, as Station Road. At times, especially in wet weather, conditions were deplorable and with homes planned, the road was significantly too narrow. The complaints had arisen particularly in 1901 when a large drain […]
Who remembers Tommy Morgan’s shop on Station Road? It will take a person of a certain age to recall this little wooden shop, which stood isolated and standing itself on a big open plot of land. During the 1950’s and 60s it was run by Tommy MORGAN and his wife. It was a wooden hut, […]
Thank you to Rob Gordon who kindly shared this lovely painting of the village with Blantyre Project. It was painted by Rob’s brother, the late Blantyre historian, Neil Gordon of Stonefield Crescent and the painting is of course Station Road looking down to Livingstone Memorial. This painting was used for the cover of Neil’s post […]
On Monday 15th November 1909, a horrific injury happened to a little girl in Low Blantyre. A warning that this article contains some upsetting content. On that afternoon, six year old girl Teresa McCaffrey or Cafferty, daughter of Thomas McCaffrey (a miner of McAlpines Buildings) was seriously injured by a tramcar. The little girl had […]
About ten o’clock on the evening of Tuesday 16th May 1916, a terrible motor car accident occurred on Glasgow Road, Blantyre, resulting in the death of a boy and injuries to two girls. This was a time of very few vehicles on the road and few rules for safety. The motor car in question actually […]