I love this photo. Previously unseen online and photographed by David Ritchie around the 1910’s, it shows a man with this cart and horse on the General’s Bridge, Stoneymeadow. Such a clear photo for being nearly 110 years old. The man is unknown but his satchel would suggest he may have been a salesman, collecting […]
Victor Silvinski shared this amazing black and white photo. Taken in the 1950’s , his family were professional acrobats, originally coming to Blantyre in 1901. They were always on the lookout for places to train for shows that would take them all over the world. Like this photo, one handed handstands on the edge of […]
Another great photo of Stoneymeadow Junction. With view beyond up to the “Lady Nancy” fields, this is the junction at Stoneymeadow as if coming from Dechmont. On the right, the former Boyd’s Farm by this era given itself over to a being a little shop. The shop on the right are now demolished, the land […]
On Monday 16th January 1967, the first phase of the EK Expressway was still being constructed and as normal, traffic coming from East Kilbride could only get into Blantyre by the Stoneymeadow Road, the quickest route at the time. That day, a lorry driver sped down the Stoneymeadow Road heading towards Blantyre and his […]
The East Kilbride Expressway was constructed in 3 phases. This article relates to the first phase. The first stage of the Expressway was built between Crossbasket and the Whirlies roundabout at East Kilbride. You would drive out of High Blantyre on to a fast road. Built in 1966 and 1967, it cost over £600,000 […]
There is a reference in the 1885 Annals of Blantyre book to “an old graveyard in Blantyre, covered in daisies and buttercups that had not been disturbed for hundreds of years.” This has always puzzled me, as dead people were being interred in the old Kirkton graveyard not just at the time this book was […]
The General’s Bridge (of General’s Brig) is situated just outside High Blantyre , beyond Greenhall, on the Stoneymeadow Road, before the entrance to Crossbasket House. It spans over the Rotten Calder river. It is unknown when the current bridge was built, but there is evidence it replaced an earlier bridge. The current bridge (pictured in […]