This excellent postcard was emailed to me by Blantyre Project reader, Arch Park (in Australia) back in December 2017. I’d seen it before, but this one is much better quality and allows picking out good detail when zoomed in. It’ll certainly help illustrate articles when I start posting about all the Glasgow Road North businesses! […]
From the start of the Council houses, directly opposite the public park entrance was the lower end of the “Toll Brae”. This was a local name from the 19th Century for a short part of Glasgow Road for about hundred yards before the old Blantyre Cotton Works Toll Point (not to be confused with Monteith’s […]
When the 59 acres of land was up for sale in Stonefield in 1851, including the Stonefield farm steading (Hasties) and fields where the park is today, its starting price of £2,000 ended up at £2,750 due to keen competition. The buyers being the Forrest family. They may not have realized the extent of […]
Well, its finally happened! The holy grail of Blantyre photos, well, certainly in terms of what people keep asking me to see. Ladies and gents, here’s the small, oval pool at Stonefield Public Park! This 1967 picture is courtesy of Blantyre Project reader Lorraine Adair. The small pool was located near the Station Road entrance […]
In September 2016, Eric Flack sent me a message saying, “Hi Paul, I am aware of some family ‘connection’ to Jackson, Craig and Coats Blantyre names. I have a silver fob medal won around 1840’s by a Jackson at the Blantyre show. Ploughing or milk. Plus a medical text book belonging to a Jackson dated 1829.” The Craig, Coats […]
Dusmuirs Drapers Shop – was located at the corner of Stonefield Road and Broompark Road. Formerly Danskins, Dunsmuirs bought over the shop sometime in the 1940’s. Mr and Mrs Dunsmuir ran the business. In 1950 John Dunsmuir’s shop specialised in Children’s Wear, Ladies Wear, Gents underwear and wools. It also sold hardware at their […]
Mr James Young was a postmaster of Blantyre from 1923 until 1928. It was reported in July 1928 that throughout the Blantyre community there was a feeling of regret at the Postal Services decision to transfer James from Blantyre to Bridge of Weir. For 5 years, James Young had been a popular postmaster at […]