Who remembers Pate’s Newsagents on Stonefield Road? Wullie Pate moved to this location after his shop on Glasgow Road was scheduled for demolition at the start of the 80’s. Moving into Benhams former shop, it not only sold newspapers and magazines but groceries, fruit and veg too. This was a time of significant change for […]
How’s this for a wonderful photo, which next year will incredibly be 100 years old! As promised, this is the start of many colourised old Blantyre photos, being shown exclusively on Blantyre Project. Frank William Benham is pictured outside his shop at the bottom of Stonefield Road in 1921. Whilst writing my Glasgow Road book, […]
A lady named Beth asks, “My Grandfather Robert Coats Young, was born at Lindsay’s Land, Stonefield Rd., Blantyre on 16 Feb 1902; His parents Alexander Hamilton Young & Janet Russell Mauchline m there 1 Dec 1893. Any information?” I was able to answer with: Here is Robert’s birth certificate, which you may have already. His ancestry is […]
Who remembers David Fisher’s yard on Glasgow Road? Pictured here in 1977 beside former Clyde Cottage, this was situated at the corner of Stonefield Road and Glasgow Road. You can just about see the gable of Mickey’s Cafe de Royal on the right. A busy action shot at the bottom of Stonefield Road, taken in […]
Who remembers this part of Stonefield Road looking like this? Taken in the 1970s, you can see the Butchers, John S McCallums sop and in the distance MacCorgarry’s. Whats your memories of these shops?
Who remembers the billboards at the bottom of Stonefield Road? Premium advertising space at the traffic lights on a busy junction. Behind, Fisher’s (Ironmongery) Yard was cleared when the other buildings were demolished around 1980. The yard was fenced off and a gravel path was constructed on the small triangular plot of land offering a […]
‘Repair Services’ was an appliance repair shop in the 1970’ and 1980s located at the foot of Stonefield Road. Owned by Jack Taylor, he moved from small premises near Mickey’s Café into larger premises a few doors up on the same side, which later became Clyde Star Video. In 1979 and into 1980, the business […]