A lovely photo of the “Counting House” or also known as “The Wages Building”, at Blantyre Village Works, near the David Livingstone Centre. Likely taken in the 1970’s, this Summer scene looks idyllic with what is certainly a very distinctive and unique building for Blantyre. Originally part of a longer building, this is the part […]
Mr. David Hunter was the maternal grandfather of David Livingstone. He was a tailor who had a shop in the Wages Building at Blantyre Works. Livingstone’s father, Neil was apprenticed to Hunter but was never an employee of the Blantyre Mills Company. Neil Livingstone married Hunter’s daughter, Agnes in 1810. David Hunter was born the […]
This photo shows the back of the Wages House, Blantyre Village Works. I need some help dating this, but it would appear perhaps to be very soon after the Mill buildings were demolished. On the upper left is the back of the Wags Building, the rugged and jagged gable still visible when the remainder of […]
A lovely photo of the “Counting House” or also known as “The Wages Building”, at Blantyre Village Works, near the David Livingstone Centre. Likely taken in the 1970’s, this Summer scene looks idyllic with what is certainly a very distinctive building for Blantyre. Originally part of a longer building, this is what remains today. Here, […]
Sent in from Alistair Hastings whose grandfather took this photo in March 1963. From a vantage point near the David Livingstone Centre turnstiles, is a view over to the old Wages building. This is from Blantyre looking over to the Bothwell side of the River Clyde. To the right is the former David Livingstone Bridge. (the […]