Today, we’re looking at the controversial subject of some of the privately owned roads in Blantyre that had by the Millennium got into a poor standard. With the council choosing not to adopt them previously, expectation was on the residents of each street to look after them. All these photos date from the year 2000. […]
Airdville – The name of a large semi detached house at Woodburn Avenue, in the highly desirable area near the railway station. Mr. Donald MacLeay owned it and lived in it from around 1900 right thought until his death in 1923. Afterwards, it passed to his son, Donald Junior. The house is thought to […]
This photo perhaps dates from the 1930s. Pictured is Blantyre’s Woodburn Avenue, at a time before modern homes. Indeed, back then, only a scattering of homes existed on the northern side of the avenue, plus of course Woodburn House at the end of the cul de sac. On the south, over the railings was […]