A short poem to tell part of the story of the Glasgow Road tenements. We fondly remember shops and these old buildings but the more I research the late 1970s, the more I read about people in Blantyre desperate to get them demolished and modernise or replaced. Reading about the condemned notices and the deplorable […]
A final photo in this series of Main Street photos from the 1920’s. This time looking skywards. To the right of the photo is the Co-operative tall building on Main Street, which exists today as flats above Costcutters. To the left was the former three storey tenement, which now occupies the car park between […]
It’s not hard to see from this picture why the tenements at Kirkton were past their sell by date. Needing rewired, replumbed, damp, subsiding and unfit for habitation, these 2 storey tenements were all but derelict by 1990. I’m sure many people will remember the shops there near the cross. The bins in the […]
The T junction at the top of Broompark Road, High Blantyre where it meets Main Street wasn’t always a T junction. It used to be a crossroads! On the 1890s maps, a street called “Forrest Place” led off Main Street towards the South, opposite Broompark Road. Leading to five tenement style houses, it would appear […]
This is a photo of my great Uncle Archie Danskin. The date is 1934 and the location is at the corner of Broompark Avenue and Stonefield Road, to be more precise at the back of Danskin’s shop (Later Collinses newsagents) Sporting a nice bicycle, he poses for the camera smartly dressed. In the background are […]
A brilliant photo by Andrew Reid of High Blantyre, shared here by Gordon Cook. Pictured in the late 1950’s is a Winter, snowy scene showing Main Street looking Westwards, at Kirkton. The tenement houses along Main Street have started to be demolished, not surviving a hundred years (built 1865). Gone is the pub and general […]
On Monday 18th September 1939, demolition work commenced to start knocking down some of the older tenements in Alpine Street, located just off Glasgow Road. (Alpine Street doesn’t exist anymore, but it was located approximately where the corner of modern John Street is today, more to the side of the Sports Centre.) William Joseph Maxwell […]