Exactly one hundred years ago in 1916, this photo was taken at Shuttle Row, Blantyre Works. It shows the very poor condition of the homes, which were then largely occupied by miners families, following the closure of the mills. The homes had been condemned over a decade earlier but still were not demolished. Indeed, […]
An elderly woman had a narrow escape, six families were marooned, and a funeral was delayed when the outside stone stairway leading to an upper flat at a two-storey Blantyre tenement collapsed on Saturday 6th January 1934. The woman, named Mrs. Meechn, was on her way to the house on the second floor of a […]
I was walking the other day at David Livingstone Centre and noticed this set of steps, closed off to the public. It leads from Shuttle Row at the top down to the this road leading to the Wages Office near the Bridge at Blantyre Works. Seeing how nature has reclaimed the steps themselves, it set […]