What was going on in Blantyre during Autumn 1967? Exploring some of the newsworthy stories during October that year, some 57 years ago. Anybody remember anything here? There was some excitement in High Blantyre as a couple of teenagers were injured in a motor cycle accident. Robert Lyon (17) and Margaret Lyon (19) of 5/7 […]
It’s difficult now to envisage how High Blantyre looked at a time before the EK Expressway and in an era of coal mining activity. This photo however, of High Blantyre is a good reminder of Blantyre’s former industrial landscape. Taken in the 1950’s from a vantage point of Craigmuir Road behind the Old Parish Church, […]
Another great photo previously unseen of Sydes Brae, High Blantyre. This is from the top of Sydes Brae taken next to the entrance leading to Chapman’s house (he owned butchers shops) and opposite is the road that was locally called ‘Rabs Corr’. Today, this is fairly near the modern Crematorium. In the background , you […]
Local man Willie McClelland messaged me recently saying, “I was born in 16 Sydes Brae, first cottage on the right going into the yard. Hoping some readers may have a photo of the house in previous years. Hoping that you might have a photo of the four white posts that used to sit half way […]
This tranquil scene is High Blantyre, pictured from Sydes Brae looking across to Douglas Street and Main Street. Taken in the early 1960’s and not seen online until now, you can see across to Priestfield Farm, long before the Jerusalem houses were built. On the left at the back, is the former large Manse at […]
Over the next month, I’ve got lots of new photos to show you here. Like this one, shared by Claire Murray. Taken (i think in the 1972), its High Blantyre photographed from Sydes Brae Bing, looking over to Blantyre Old Parish Church. Craigmuir is on the left hand side and the church manse on the […]
These couple of views of High Blantyre were photographed in the 1960’s. They look down upon the relatively new Kirkton housing estate and the former Bing of Dixon’s Collieries, which was by this time not in use. This was the changing face of Blantyre as the visible legacy of its mining decades was finally coming […]