A new type of home was constructed in Blantyre in 1929. A decade before the Second World War, steel homes were built at Watson Street and at Hunthill Road to alleviate an accommodation shortage. In the valuation roll of 1930, they are noted as being owned by the County Council of Lanark. They were […]
Back in the 1920’s, some of my family line emigrated from Blantyre to Canada. Moving from Broompark Road, they ended up in New Brunswick. I keep in contact with my mother’s cousin who has been kind enough over the years to write and send me some Blantyre related photos and items. Perhaps unseen online, is […]
A couple of photos next sent in by Jim Cochrane. Pictured is Bill Cochrane outside the back of his home at 6 Watson Place, High Blantyre. The single storey homes were known in the 1970s and 1980s in the local area as “The Steel Houses” a name I’m not sure still exists today. In the […]