This lovely, previously unseen photo from my collection shows the brand new houses built on Broompark Avenue. Photographed here in 1908 or so, they were constructed around 2 years earlier by William Burnett. Obtaining the land from the Jacksons of Croftfoot on 1st November 1905, William Burnett planned on constructing an avenue with good quality […]
This is Mr Stewart of Park, High Blantyre, likely in the 1930s or 40s. Mr Stewart, I believe was the grandfather of Jim & Alex Rocheads. It looks like he’s standing in the former garden of Blantyre’s Park House. This was a beautiful , well kept garden, although it doesn’t exist anymore. It is now […]
From the illustrated social history book… “Blantyre – Glasgow Road, The Real Story” by Paul Veverka (c) 2016 – 2018. Stonefield Cottage Immediately adjacent westwards to Clive Place (later The Old Original Bar) was a former detached house, named Stonefield Cottage. This little house was important for the area of Stonefield on its […]
My good friend and history colleague Robert Stewart shared these 3 interesting photos with me recently. Robert added, 1) The aerial photo is from July 1965. Points of interest, the scar on the ground, bottom right, the start of the ground works for the EK Expressway, and top centre, the railway embankment next to […]
Jim Cochrane shared this First World War photo adding, “This is Alex & Jim Rochead’s Grand parents Alexander and Wilimina Stewart who lived in Park House. Their mother is the baby girl Minnie Annabel Jane Stewart who was born in June 1918.” Her older brother Donald is behind. This picture dates from possibly November 1918 towards […]
Mr. John Stewart Kennedy was born 4th January 1830. He married Emma Baker (b1833-d1930) on 14th October 1858 in USA and died 31st October 1909. His parents were John Kennedy and Isabella Stewart. His father was from Stirling, his mother from Glasgow and they had settled in Blantyre after their marriage to pursue work […]
In May 1930, while workmen were engaged cutting a new roadway through Priory Pit, Blantyre, a charge of gelignite, which had been left buried by mistake the previous night, exploded, causing the death of one man and serious injury to another. The man killed was William Stewart (57), who resided 51 Small Crescent, High […]