Andrew Gilmours on Glasgow Road, a photo taken between 1903 – 1910. Glasgow Road trams are running and this photo, now shown here in high resolution is the first time I was able to tell that Andrew Gilmours wasnt just the shop at the end, but the signage also suggest it was the whole building […]
Jim Cochrane sent me this photo today which prompted me to do some detective work on it! I’d seen the photo before but there was never any date on it. Was it 1900s , 1910s or even 1920 or 30s? Here’s why its great to revisit old photos, once you have the date history on […]
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 […]
The Priory Bridge is an iconic name and structure in Blantyre that still exists to this day. Whilst the bridge is entirely closed off to traffic for several decades, it still stands proudly as an old monument to Blantyre’s history at the side of the new A724 reprofiled Glasgow Road to the South of the […]
I think this postcard of Glasgow Road was created to show off the “new Glasgow Road” after the old tramlines had been ripped out. I cannot think why for any reason such a postcard would want to feature public toilets and looking from the quality of the road, I think it was to show off […]
1910 The Spittal Bridge, or more commonly known as “The Priory Bridge”. Located just off Glasgow Road, the bridge still exists today but is often missed. In this old (and nicely colourised) postcard, a tramcar passes over on it’s way to Cambuslang. Blantyre’s existing tramlines (which opened in 1903) were extended in 1906 and opened […]
Pictured around 1905 is the Number four tram in Blantyre at Glasgow Road. The trams opened on 22nd July 1903 and were hugely popular permitting travel between Hamilton, Motherwell, Wishaw and Blantyre. By 1907 the tramlines also reached Cambuslang, the most difficult part of that extension getting over Priory Bridge. The Blantyre terminus was at […]