In 1896, the road we know today as Station Road from the Station up to Glasgow Road, was almost entirely rural. A rough track, surrounded by fields, hedgerows and trees. Indeed on the eastern side there wasn’t one property or building from the station southwards until you got to the old Toll House at the […]
On 19th September 1967, the County Council approved two dozen brand new street names for Blantyre, in readiness for the new housing estates being built at the time. The houses were being built just off Stonefield Road, in former farm fields of Broompark Farm and stretched between Stonefield Road and Victoria Street, between the High […]
After the initial shine of a glitzy opening of Blantyre ASDA in October 1980, the mood turned a little sour for residents fast becoming shocked at the volume of traffic in Blantyre. That certainly was the view of Councillor Malcolm Waugh who claimed the arrival of ASDA had brought traffic chaos into Blantyre. His complaint […]