I’ve been exploring the miners strike of summer 1894 and the lengths people were going to, just to ensure food for their families. As I’ve posted about recently, crime was on the rise and the theft of food was significantly on the rise. Early on Wednesday 8th August 1894, a confectionary shop owned by Mrs […]
A lady named Karen asks, “Hi Paul, I am looking for help trying to find out details of my gran (Mary Hutchison, nee Barratt). I’ve been told she used to have or work in a small shop in High Blantyre that sold sweets, don’t know if it sold anything else though). It was before my […]
Back to the 1960’s and Glasgow Road. Its 1963 here and children hang about Collins’ Bakery and Birrell’s Sweet Shop. To see the cakes and sweets in both windows, must have been an exciting thing, prior to heading into the cinema next door. The scene is of course near the junction of Station Road. Collin’s […]
This photo was taken in the 1910s or early 1920s. Pictured is the Village Sweet Shop in Mid Row, and in the photo are sisters Miss Margaret Hamilton and her sister Annie. In 1915, Margaret Hamilton was the young proprietor of houses 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 Mid or Middle Row. The shop […]
Blantyre shopkeepers were alarmed when it became known that attempts had been made during the week-end of 22nd and 23rd September 1928, to enter four shops all situated within fifty yards of one another in Stonofield Road. The premises belong to Dugald Norris, licensed grocer; David Gibson & Sons, licensed grocers; Peter Craig, butcher; […]
Does anybody remember Tommy Morgans Sweet shop? Mr. Tommy Morgan ran a sweet shop during the 1960’s at the Village, Low Blantyre. It was located in a wooden hut situated on the east side of Station Road, directly opposite the entrance to Viewfield Avenue and near the north gable of the tenement at Ulva Place. Behind the shop was a […]
This photo shows the former Stoneymeadow Tollhouse, and subsequently later, the Boyds Farm around 1905. Around the 1870’s, the Boyds had sold up and left for New Zealand, and the property no longer afterwards was a working farm. The building located at the junction of Stoneymeadow Road and Dalton was by this time, a most […]