A cracking BIG tree at Kirkton on display this year as South Lanarkshire Council prepare Blantyre for the forthcoming festive season. The Council put up the tree at High Blantyre Cross last week, decorating it with festive lights yesterday, Tuesday 15th November. There’s a tree now put up at Glasgow Road too. Although Blantyre no […]
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Age Dating the Old Tree
I was a little sorry to recently see the old tree in the middle of the David Livingstone Playing Grounds had been felled. This must have happened in March or April 2022 and its willow-like appearance could be seen in many photographs over the decades. However, the tree was isolated, alone in the middle of […]
2005 Tree Clearance at Sydes Brae
Going back to Winter 2005 when trees were being felled at the edges of the road at Sydes Brae. This sorrowful sight had a purpose though. Site clearance had commenced to make way for the construction of the current Crematorium. This followed a large campaign by Blantyre residents to prevent the Crematorium being built at […]
Kirkyard Tree Felled
1900s Main Street
A fantastic photo of Main Street, High Blantyre, taken around the first decade of the 1900’s. In the foreground, the tenement that still stands was JB Struthers Inn and the Masonic Lodge (long before the roughcast covered the stone). The Priestfield tree is MOST prominent in this photo, even in 1900, estimated as being […]
Snowfall
Tree is up and ready
Christmas tree was put up at Glasgow Road on Friday there. I’m pleased to say, my fellow Blantyre Community Committee members and I, along with several local Blantyre businesses have paid to upgrade the tree this year, making it nearly double the height of last years! Something we all hope is noticed as you drive […]