Here’s the former Blantyre Works wages office, which today is now a beautiful, modern home, located near the David Livingstone Bridge on the River Clyde. This colourised photo is from around 1940. Once part of a much larger building, this is the only part which remains and is one of just a dozen buildings […]
Until very recently I only had a poor photocopy of this picture, but have now come into possession of an excellent scanned, high resolution image of the postcard. As such, I’d like to show it again here, replacing the poor image i showed back in December 2012. I think the postcard dates to 1966, although […]
A couple of excellent photos well over one hundred years old! Pictures around 1905 or so is the Wages Office building at Blantyre Works. The building was not isolated or detached, but instead at this time was still terraced. At the time, the first suspension bridge was still situated some distance upstream and was not […]
These photos were sent to me in January 2015 by Gordon Cook. Pictured are the Blantyre Mills, just after many of the buildings had been demolished. I’m unsure of the date, (so perhaps Graeme Walker can keep me right), but I believe that both date from the 1910’s or possibly 1920’s, certainly after 1905 and […]
Blantyre Wages Office 1902. This previously unpublished photo shows a smartly dressed woman outside the Wages office feeding the hens. Even by the point of this photo, this building was over 100 years old. The Wages office is still there today but is now a private house, renovated in the 1980s.