These photos were taken by myself in 1988. Pictured are friends from school at an 18th Birthday party at the Auchinraith Club, Auchinraith Road, Blantyre. Many of us were still only 17, some even younger. Most of us from Blantyre High or John Ogilvie schools. I think this may have been Lynn Taylor’s birthday party […]
Long before John Carrigan’s Pub at Broompark Road, or it’s former life as Finbars, Manhatten, Eddie Collins Bakery, Ingrams Bakery or even older, Lawson’s Bakery, the site at Larkfield was home to The Alhambra Theatre. The building is not featured on 1859 maps, so must have been constructed in the 1860s or 1870s and had […]