On 30th December 1936, a fire occurred in a bungalow at Station Road. The Cambuslang detachment of Lanark Fire Brigade was summoned to the fire which had broken out in a bungalow at 43 Station Road, Blantyre. The house at that time was owned by Mr George Potsworth, who worked his business as a boot repairer and […]
“Woodburn” is a large house located just South of Low Blantyre Train Station. Pictured here on an 1859 map, this property belonged to J Burns, the official Station master at the time. It was also home to J Sproul Esquire. Described at the time as “a superior , detached property”, the house sat near the […]
Station Road in 1910 is the subject of this next photo. Beautifully colourised and shared here courtesy of Jim Cochrane. To the right are the fields that were eventually to become the Low Blantyre Public Park. The train station is just around the corner in the distance out of sight. The houses on the left […]
Two beautiful photos of Station Road. The first from 1932 shows the lower part of Station Road, heading down to the David Livingstone Centre. Farm Road branches off on the left where the cart is standing. Nowadays, this leads to a large post war modern housing estate. In the second picture taken just a few […]
In Summer 1948, the newly opened Station Road prefabs didn’t get off to the best start. For 3 or 4 weeks, the local Country Council forgot or did not register the new homes and as such, the refuse collection didn’t take place for a whole month. Dustbins overflowed and rubbish lay in streets, discarded and […]
When the Broadway Cinema opened in 1939, there were small iron railings around the corner of Glasgow Road and Station Road, protecting public from traffic. During the war years, as with most iron railings all over the UK, they were cut and removed for the war effort. (Look at many stone walls in Blantyre, you […]
On Tuesday 4th June 1946, a young Blantyre man lost his life in an accident in Glasgow with his two Blantyre colleagues seriously injured. A man was killed and ten people were injured in a collision between a Glasgow tramcar and a motor lorry loaded with brickettes. The accident occurred on the road near Barshaw […]