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 […]
An elderly woman had a narrow escape, six families were marooned, and a funeral was delayed when the outside stone stairway leading to an upper flat at a two-storey Blantyre tenement collapsed on Saturday 6th January 1934. The woman, named Mrs. Meechn, was on her way to the house on the second floor of a […]
It is with kind thanks to Dr James Graham who has given permission for this to be shared here. James was born in 1938 at Broompark Road, just a year before the outbreak of WW2. His father was John, “The Blantyre Saint” who preached around Blantyre. James wrote, “After their marriage my parents found a […]
A charming photo taken around 1890 of Bardykes Road looking North. The buildings and walls on the left are all now long since gone. On the right Brownlie cottage protrudes out into the road, part of which was later cut away in 1929 when the road was widened and re-profiled for traffic. Also on the […]
This photo shows a rainy Glasgow Road looking west with John Street on the right. To the left branching off is Logan Street. The Castle Vaults pub on the right, the Priory Bar on the left. The photo dates from 1927. The tramlines are visible in the carriageway and hardly any traffic. Today it looks […]
This photo dates from approximately 1954 and shows High Blantyre Main Street. Pictured from the corner of Priestfield (roughly where the Apollo Bar) is today, the view looks Eastwards back towards Causeystanes and Auchinraith. A few things like McLeans newsagents, the large Priestfield Tree and Blakelys pub will still be recognisable, but other features like […]
Until recently, I’d only ever seen a low resolution version of this photo of High Blantyre top cross at Kirkton. Now scanned in high resolution, some details I’d previously missed, are now apparent. (click on photo to zoom in) Pictured in 1915 and looking Eastwards along Main Street, there are some small details like the […]