OK, a pub picture next, well outside it during the 1980s. Near the bottom of Stonefield Road was the Red Lion Pub. These guys standing outside for a photo. Before the Red Lion became a pub, it was Maxwells Supermarket. Pictured across the road is the cobblers and in the background the gable of the […]
1957 this time. Photographed at the front of the Anderson Church, Stonefield Road, is my mum Janet Duncan (the wee girl on the right), and her brothers on left Archie Duncan and John Duncan. The lady in the picture is their mother, my grandmother Mary Duncan (nee Danskin). The occasion is Nancy Duncan (MacFarlane) wedding […]
What happens when you merge a 1923 postcard of Stonefield Road, with a recent picture in 2014? Well, you get the whole change to the road, put entirely in context and chance to look through the keyhole , as to what it used to be like. Thanks to the skills of Robert Brownlie, this animated […]
Still existing today is Smith’s Funeral Parlour at 83 Stonefield Road, Blantyre. Established first in 1877, the family business served many people throughout Lanarkshire, with several generations of the Smiths running the funeral service. Their business relocated to the current building shortly after the Anderson Church burned down on 8th June 1978. The Anderson Church […]
This photo dates from around 1915 and is part of a series of Postcards taken around that time. Pictured one Edwardian day is a street scene at the bottom of Stonefield Road, where it meets with Glasgow Road. I believe it to be morning as the shadows are laying to the East, indicating the sun […]
This marvelous postcard was photographed in 1923. Pictured is the top of Stonefield Road, looking from the cross at Stonefield Crescent / Broompark Road, Northwards down Stonefield Road itself. Danskin’s drapery shop is on the corner of Broompark Road / Stonefield Road and next to it, the small buildings also still there today. However, then […]
A few photographs taken in May 1950, sent in by Blantyre Project reader Muir Wasson. Pictured is a dedication of the colours presented by the 4th Blantyre Scouts and Guides at the Anderson Church on Stonefield Road. Muir is the scout holding the Union Flag and the scoutmaster was Bob MacFarlane. A lot of faces […]