How about this for a cracking photo! From the end of the 70s, tenements get pulled down on the north side of Glasgow Road, opposite where the school/employment exchange used to be. It’s hard to imagine this was just 40 years ago. Taken from corner of Victoria Street, you can see exactly what this meant […]
Hopefully this is the first time you’ve seen this photo. Pictured on Glasgow Road is the David Livingstone Memorial Church, the photo dating from (what I believe is) the 1950’s/1960’s. Does anybody remember the former tenement immediately to the left? I’ll be writing in detail about these buildings later in the year as part of […]
The first week in April 1967 was particularly notable for vandalism in Blantyre. An empty prefab in Lochlie Street, High Blantyre which was due to be demolished was set on fire on the evening of Monday 3rd April 1967. Although firemen were quickly on the scene, only the frame was left standing. The next evening […]
In March 1979, uncertainty existed at a block of shops on the north side of High Blantyre’s Main Street. The shops on the lower floor of the tenements at the corner of Cemetery Road and Main Street were to be put under compulsory purchase order, to make way for the council’s new development of […]
I’ve been asked a few times for photos of the Clydeview Shopping Centre being built. This one from Winter 1980 is pretty close taken from the top of the centre above whats now the lawyers office showing the scaffold still up as finishes to the roof took place just before opening. Across the road, […]
This photo was taken in the early 1950’s at the back of Little’s Building, a tenement on Stonefield Road, at Larkfield. Pictured are brothers William (Bill) and Alex Duncan. During the 1950’s the Duncan family lived next door to the Robertson family (who may have had previous family connections back to the name of the […]
An aerial photo of Blantyre in 1955 best shows High Blantyre Main Street at Auchinraith. I was contacted by a Blantyre Project ready who used to live in a former tenement on Main Street at the top of Auchinraith Road. The former tenement building is no longer there today. I’ve marked up several interesting […]