hello drapadew
sorry i missed you before you trip hope you have a grand time I think it is snowing up that way. My cousin alex is enjoying your Blantyre memories to.
catch up when you get back
streets in blantyre.....
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Margaret
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Back strolling through blantyre
Cheers
Margaret
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Margaret
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Margaret.
We are now more or less at the center of Blantvre when we reach Victoria Street.This street runs from the Glasgow Road(Main Street)all the way South to Catch up with the Main Street of High Blantyre.This street was at one time named Clay Street.It is the-only street in Blantyre that runs in a straight line and bisects quite a few streets running East to West,starting with Calder Street in the North,then,Small Crescent,Hardie
Street, Welsh Drive,Nursery Place and finishing at Main Street High Blantyre.
On the left hand corner looking South stood Nessie's School. On the other side of the street was the start of a tenement type building which continued up the Glasgow Road.On the corner of this tenement building was a grocery store. Further on up past the tenement building was the entrance to Hastie's Farm.
This was a farm as I knew it in the 1930's it had cows and a dairy with a lot of stable space which was used by the farmer and local carters for sheltering their horses,I can remember the large cobble stones through-out the yard and all of the slipping and sliding that went on on the frosty mornings when they were first brought out of the stables to be hamessed,they seemed to have a sense that told them that they had to tread much more carefully on a morning like this.Most of the horses were Clydesdale's
By the 1950's Hastie's farm started to go through a change where it was turned into a Restaurant and Banqueting Facilitie.Over the years it became very well known in Lanarkshire.and drew a fairly large crowd most nights,it had to have been going for nearly 30years before it was sold and in is place now stands a Retirement Home called Victoria Nursing Home.
Further up the street there was a Fruit, Vegetable,and Plant Nursery where a lot of the locals bought their tomatoes and seedlings for their allotments or small holdings.
Directly across from there was where I was born in 1930, the address was 3 Victoria Street a row of Miners Raws which went under the name of the Honeymoon
There was a wall to the North which surrounded the Nessie's School from the squalor of the raws.This wall came in handy for us to kick our ball up against and we used it for many other activities. Some of the Honymoon kids attended the school so any playthings lost over the wall were usually returned to us
Like all the raws in Blantyre ours being one of the oldest it was a mess
All of this comer from Nessie's school and up past the Honeymoon has been demolished and in is place stands the ASDA Shopping Center
Next to us was the Blantyre Police station where my dad threatened on many occasion to put us boys if we did not behave ourselves.When I was about the age of 10-12 my dad did at one time make that sort of an arrangement with the police sergeant where by I was taken into the police station and shown the holding cells and the sergeant told me that this was where I was going to put if I did not straighten up my ideas.Of course my dad was pretty friendly with this particular sergeant,It did not scare me any.I thought it was a good idea.
The police Station stands on the comer of Calder Street and Victoria Street. Across the street from the Police Station stands Calder Street School and Across the street West is the Blantyre Public Health Center.
Past the Health Center is a Playing Field belonging to the Academy on Calder Street.This used to be an open field where the farmer from the Stonefield Farm allowed his cows to graze. This is now only used for the outside activities associated with the Academy.
On the other East side of the street there is now a bowling green belonging to the Blantyre miners welfare.
From here to the Main Street in High Blantyre all the rest of Victoria Street is taken up by a Council Scheme which I have only ever heard it
reffered to as Morris Street Council scheme. Margaret this is the scheme that your Dad and cousins spent a few years.The scheme have gone through at least 3 types of renovations over the past 70 odd years,but they are still standing
Victoria Street had a funny ending to it when it finished at the Main Street High Blantyre. It had narrowed down to a passage way not even wide enough for a cart to past thrugh,only wide enough at its widest point to let 2 pedestrians shoulder to shoulder pass
TDH
The following list was made up by my Cousin Robert Dunsmuir from Blantyre.
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LIST of TENEMENT BUJLDINGS and SHOPS in BLANTYRE Starting from Burnbank/Blantyre boundary on left handside of Glasgow Road
Springwell.
1. House, McDougald Fruit & Veg Merchant.
2.Lawsons Building. Shop, small grocer & baker, owned by Meg Lawson.
3. Chalmers Building, next to Caldwell hall (Coffin hall) Stonefield Church hall.
4 Rosendale 3 storey red sandstone building (behind) church halls, Auchinraith Club at end of same building. Auchinraith rd --- L/H side, James's Place, Radnor BLd, Melbourne PL, (Buggy). R/H Side, Bute Ter.
5.Henderson Bld, Glasgow Rd, vacant shop.Clarks Funeral, Solicitors office.
6.Kelly's Horse Shoe Bar.
7.Botterrils Building, Shop, fish restuarant & tearoom.
8. Burleigh Church.
Herbertson St -- Roberts Building, Telephone exchange, old police sub station around 1900
9. Co-op halls, offices & shops, central branch stretching from halfway up Herbertson St, to Jackson St.
Jackson St-- Building at top of street probably named Jackson Ter.,
10 Kidd's Building (Sproats Laun). Shops, I Vacant, Hughie Kidd's fish & chip, Smiddy Pub. Elm st -- Merry's Rows back to Auchinraith rd.
11. Stonefield Parish Church
Church St
12.Masonic Buildings built in three stages 1. Small tenement, & Dr Hutchisons surgery 2. Masonic Temple & halls, Shops Bowie's Florist, fruit & veg, Aitkenhead Butcher, Mathieson jeweller,Bank, 3.Priory Bar & building called Priory Place
Logan St
I3.Turners Building Shop unknown
14.Central Building, Shops Co-op chemist, Ladies Hairdressers,& Dr Gordons Surgery.
Craig St
IS.Tenement building in Craig St. L/H Carlton Place 16.
Harpers Garage.
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17.Hill's Laun building, Shops Hill's Pa'wnbrokers, Haddows Dentist
18.Low Blantyre school (nessie's)
Victoria St -- L/h the Honeymoon, Police
19.Annfield Ter, Gibsons shop grocery & provisions,
Priory St
20. Stonefield Tavern could be the oldest house in Blantyre. 21.Co~op N02 Branch two buildings
22.Knights o St Columba Building McNally.s chip shop on gable end (now Sun House Chineese Take~a-way,
23. Y.M.C.A.building
24.Olivers Building, Shops Lawyers office, Hairdressers. Plumbers, Hughes photographer
Stonefield Road Valerios Bld, Micky's Ice Cream Parlour, Scobies Bakers, Benham Newsagent, Chip shop,
McCallum grocers, Painters, Gibson Grocery, Pub, Norris Grocery. Butchers
25.Craigs Building Craigs Pub
26. McNeils Building & Pub.
Bardykes Rd & Boundary.
TENEMENTS starting R/H side of Glasgow Rd from Burnbank /Blantyre boundary.
Springwell
27.
Dougie Fraser's Building & shop. Amison Place.
28.
Duncans BId Shops. Kane Butchers
29.
Valerios Bld & Enzios lce Cream Parlour.
30.
Robertsons Lemonade Works. 31. Mount Pleasant BLd & Cottages.
Whistlebeny Rd -- Craighead pit on L/H SIde, Whistlberry Colliery 1&2 on RlH side
32.
Greyhound Stadium, & Celtic Football ground behind Bairds Rows.
33. Grants Bld, Shops Owens Cycle & acc,.Ella Little Grocery, Sub Post Office & Sam Douglas Hairdressers.
Lane to Baird,; Rows ( Craighead Rows)
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34.Gilmours Bld, Shops Gilmours Grocery, Blacks Bakery, Gilmour Clothes etc., Angies Ice Cream Parlour,
small Grocery, Richardson's Butcher.
Forrest St -- Cinema Flea Pit, Blantyre Victoria Football ground, Oilworks. Salvation Army Citadel.
35.Various Bld, Shops Livingstonian Pub, 1st Masonic Temple, .Jope's Surgery, Chemist, Tempelton Grocery,
Clarkston Newsagent,Wee Don's (Valerio) Ice Cream, Marshalls shoe shop. Butchers, Wellington Pub.
Clark St.-- Building next to Vic's Park, Blind Watties Briquettes & Parraffin Merchants
36. Various BId, Shops, Mathew Millar cobblers, Hairdressers (Thorburn), Agnew's Fish, Lightbody Cakes,
British Restaurant later Gas Board showroom, Batters ironmongers, Boyd's Hall,(Bookies), Sandy Thompson
Newsagent, Callaghan Dress & clothes, Sweet shop where Pasha Cigs were sold.
John St -- Slaughterhouse, Kelly's Engineering, McPhee's Piggery, Lane to Station.
37. McAlpines Buildings, Shops McLaughlin's Pub, Davidson Draper, Hairdressers, Newsagents (Sandy
Thompson), Allans Fish & Chips, (name changed to Andrews), Hughes Grocery,.
Mc Alpine St.
38. Brown's Bld, Shops Fruiters (Cathy Potts), Norris grocer's, Picture House(The Dookit), Paterson's
Chemist & Optician, Hogg's Newsagent (later Pates), Littles the Baker, Paterson (Painter & Decorator),
Peter Craig Butchers.
Greenside St.
39. Harts BLd Shops Cosy Corner Pub, Peter Valerio Ice cream Parlour, Jimmy Cleary's Ladies & Gents
hairdressers, Central Bar PlH, Browns Painter & Decorator, Peter Craig Butchers,Adam's Fumiture Store,
Blantyre Gazette Clifford Printers.
Entrance to Stonefleld public Park.
40. Vincent's BLd, Shops Bakers, Norries Fish, Mauchline Newsagent, Vincents Fish Restuarant, McWilliams Grocery.
Station Rd -- Nicholsons BLd & Shop, Railway station, Village, Livingstone Memorial.
41. Broadway Cinema, Two storey Bld, Shops Birrel confectionary, Templetons, Dentist, Calaghan Drapery.
42. Bethany Hall.(Methodist Church).
Joanna Ter -- Entrance to St Joseph School.
43. Building Joanna Ter, Shop Chemist.
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44.Old Chapel House (was first RC Chapel & School 1878 )
45. St Joseph Church.
Maybeery Pl-- New Chapel house
46Mayberry BId.
47.Livingstone Memorial Church.
48.Small two storey building. Thornhill Place.
49.Parkville Hotel.
50.Residential Cottages.
51. Council Houses. (Coatshill)
Whins Rd West End. -- Priory Pit, Blantyreferme Pit, Tenement Building at Fin-me-oot.(Uddingston)Boundary
We are now more or less at the center of Blantvre when we reach Victoria Street.This street runs from the Glasgow Road(Main Street)all the way South to Catch up with the Main Street of High Blantyre.This street was at one time named Clay Street.It is the-only street in Blantyre that runs in a straight line and bisects quite a few streets running East to West,starting with Calder Street in the North,then,Small Crescent,Hardie
Street, Welsh Drive,Nursery Place and finishing at Main Street High Blantyre.
On the left hand corner looking South stood Nessie's School. On the other side of the street was the start of a tenement type building which continued up the Glasgow Road.On the corner of this tenement building was a grocery store. Further on up past the tenement building was the entrance to Hastie's Farm.
This was a farm as I knew it in the 1930's it had cows and a dairy with a lot of stable space which was used by the farmer and local carters for sheltering their horses,I can remember the large cobble stones through-out the yard and all of the slipping and sliding that went on on the frosty mornings when they were first brought out of the stables to be hamessed,they seemed to have a sense that told them that they had to tread much more carefully on a morning like this.Most of the horses were Clydesdale's
By the 1950's Hastie's farm started to go through a change where it was turned into a Restaurant and Banqueting Facilitie.Over the years it became very well known in Lanarkshire.and drew a fairly large crowd most nights,it had to have been going for nearly 30years before it was sold and in is place now stands a Retirement Home called Victoria Nursing Home.
Further up the street there was a Fruit, Vegetable,and Plant Nursery where a lot of the locals bought their tomatoes and seedlings for their allotments or small holdings.
Directly across from there was where I was born in 1930, the address was 3 Victoria Street a row of Miners Raws which went under the name of the Honeymoon
There was a wall to the North which surrounded the Nessie's School from the squalor of the raws.This wall came in handy for us to kick our ball up against and we used it for many other activities. Some of the Honymoon kids attended the school so any playthings lost over the wall were usually returned to us
Like all the raws in Blantyre ours being one of the oldest it was a mess
All of this comer from Nessie's school and up past the Honeymoon has been demolished and in is place stands the ASDA Shopping Center
Next to us was the Blantyre Police station where my dad threatened on many occasion to put us boys if we did not behave ourselves.When I was about the age of 10-12 my dad did at one time make that sort of an arrangement with the police sergeant where by I was taken into the police station and shown the holding cells and the sergeant told me that this was where I was going to put if I did not straighten up my ideas.Of course my dad was pretty friendly with this particular sergeant,It did not scare me any.I thought it was a good idea.
The police Station stands on the comer of Calder Street and Victoria Street. Across the street from the Police Station stands Calder Street School and Across the street West is the Blantyre Public Health Center.
Past the Health Center is a Playing Field belonging to the Academy on Calder Street.This used to be an open field where the farmer from the Stonefield Farm allowed his cows to graze. This is now only used for the outside activities associated with the Academy.
On the other East side of the street there is now a bowling green belonging to the Blantyre miners welfare.
From here to the Main Street in High Blantyre all the rest of Victoria Street is taken up by a Council Scheme which I have only ever heard it
reffered to as Morris Street Council scheme. Margaret this is the scheme that your Dad and cousins spent a few years.The scheme have gone through at least 3 types of renovations over the past 70 odd years,but they are still standing
Victoria Street had a funny ending to it when it finished at the Main Street High Blantyre. It had narrowed down to a passage way not even wide enough for a cart to past thrugh,only wide enough at its widest point to let 2 pedestrians shoulder to shoulder pass
TDH
The following list was made up by my Cousin Robert Dunsmuir from Blantyre.
Page 1
LIST of TENEMENT BUJLDINGS and SHOPS in BLANTYRE Starting from Burnbank/Blantyre boundary on left handside of Glasgow Road
Springwell.
1. House, McDougald Fruit & Veg Merchant.
2.Lawsons Building. Shop, small grocer & baker, owned by Meg Lawson.
3. Chalmers Building, next to Caldwell hall (Coffin hall) Stonefield Church hall.
4 Rosendale 3 storey red sandstone building (behind) church halls, Auchinraith Club at end of same building. Auchinraith rd --- L/H side, James's Place, Radnor BLd, Melbourne PL, (Buggy). R/H Side, Bute Ter.
5.Henderson Bld, Glasgow Rd, vacant shop.Clarks Funeral, Solicitors office.
6.Kelly's Horse Shoe Bar.
7.Botterrils Building, Shop, fish restuarant & tearoom.
8. Burleigh Church.
Herbertson St -- Roberts Building, Telephone exchange, old police sub station around 1900
9. Co-op halls, offices & shops, central branch stretching from halfway up Herbertson St, to Jackson St.
Jackson St-- Building at top of street probably named Jackson Ter.,
10 Kidd's Building (Sproats Laun). Shops, I Vacant, Hughie Kidd's fish & chip, Smiddy Pub. Elm st -- Merry's Rows back to Auchinraith rd.
11. Stonefield Parish Church
Church St
12.Masonic Buildings built in three stages 1. Small tenement, & Dr Hutchisons surgery 2. Masonic Temple & halls, Shops Bowie's Florist, fruit & veg, Aitkenhead Butcher, Mathieson jeweller,Bank, 3.Priory Bar & building called Priory Place
Logan St
I3.Turners Building Shop unknown
14.Central Building, Shops Co-op chemist, Ladies Hairdressers,& Dr Gordons Surgery.
Craig St
IS.Tenement building in Craig St. L/H Carlton Place 16.
Harpers Garage.
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17.Hill's Laun building, Shops Hill's Pa'wnbrokers, Haddows Dentist
18.Low Blantyre school (nessie's)
Victoria St -- L/h the Honeymoon, Police
19.Annfield Ter, Gibsons shop grocery & provisions,
Priory St
20. Stonefield Tavern could be the oldest house in Blantyre. 21.Co~op N02 Branch two buildings
22.Knights o St Columba Building McNally.s chip shop on gable end (now Sun House Chineese Take~a-way,
23. Y.M.C.A.building
24.Olivers Building, Shops Lawyers office, Hairdressers. Plumbers, Hughes photographer
Stonefield Road Valerios Bld, Micky's Ice Cream Parlour, Scobies Bakers, Benham Newsagent, Chip shop,
McCallum grocers, Painters, Gibson Grocery, Pub, Norris Grocery. Butchers
25.Craigs Building Craigs Pub
26. McNeils Building & Pub.
Bardykes Rd & Boundary.
TENEMENTS starting R/H side of Glasgow Rd from Burnbank /Blantyre boundary.
Springwell
27.
Dougie Fraser's Building & shop. Amison Place.
28.
Duncans BId Shops. Kane Butchers
29.
Valerios Bld & Enzios lce Cream Parlour.
30.
Robertsons Lemonade Works. 31. Mount Pleasant BLd & Cottages.
Whistlebeny Rd -- Craighead pit on L/H SIde, Whistlberry Colliery 1&2 on RlH side
32.
Greyhound Stadium, & Celtic Football ground behind Bairds Rows.
33. Grants Bld, Shops Owens Cycle & acc,.Ella Little Grocery, Sub Post Office & Sam Douglas Hairdressers.
Lane to Baird,; Rows ( Craighead Rows)
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34.Gilmours Bld, Shops Gilmours Grocery, Blacks Bakery, Gilmour Clothes etc., Angies Ice Cream Parlour,
small Grocery, Richardson's Butcher.
Forrest St -- Cinema Flea Pit, Blantyre Victoria Football ground, Oilworks. Salvation Army Citadel.
35.Various Bld, Shops Livingstonian Pub, 1st Masonic Temple, .Jope's Surgery, Chemist, Tempelton Grocery,
Clarkston Newsagent,Wee Don's (Valerio) Ice Cream, Marshalls shoe shop. Butchers, Wellington Pub.
Clark St.-- Building next to Vic's Park, Blind Watties Briquettes & Parraffin Merchants
36. Various BId, Shops, Mathew Millar cobblers, Hairdressers (Thorburn), Agnew's Fish, Lightbody Cakes,
British Restaurant later Gas Board showroom, Batters ironmongers, Boyd's Hall,(Bookies), Sandy Thompson
Newsagent, Callaghan Dress & clothes, Sweet shop where Pasha Cigs were sold.
John St -- Slaughterhouse, Kelly's Engineering, McPhee's Piggery, Lane to Station.
37. McAlpines Buildings, Shops McLaughlin's Pub, Davidson Draper, Hairdressers, Newsagents (Sandy
Thompson), Allans Fish & Chips, (name changed to Andrews), Hughes Grocery,.
Mc Alpine St.
38. Brown's Bld, Shops Fruiters (Cathy Potts), Norris grocer's, Picture House(The Dookit), Paterson's
Chemist & Optician, Hogg's Newsagent (later Pates), Littles the Baker, Paterson (Painter & Decorator),
Peter Craig Butchers.
Greenside St.
39. Harts BLd Shops Cosy Corner Pub, Peter Valerio Ice cream Parlour, Jimmy Cleary's Ladies & Gents
hairdressers, Central Bar PlH, Browns Painter & Decorator, Peter Craig Butchers,Adam's Fumiture Store,
Blantyre Gazette Clifford Printers.
Entrance to Stonefleld public Park.
40. Vincent's BLd, Shops Bakers, Norries Fish, Mauchline Newsagent, Vincents Fish Restuarant, McWilliams Grocery.
Station Rd -- Nicholsons BLd & Shop, Railway station, Village, Livingstone Memorial.
41. Broadway Cinema, Two storey Bld, Shops Birrel confectionary, Templetons, Dentist, Calaghan Drapery.
42. Bethany Hall.(Methodist Church).
Joanna Ter -- Entrance to St Joseph School.
43. Building Joanna Ter, Shop Chemist.
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44.Old Chapel House (was first RC Chapel & School 1878 )
45. St Joseph Church.
Maybeery Pl-- New Chapel house
46Mayberry BId.
47.Livingstone Memorial Church.
48.Small two storey building. Thornhill Place.
49.Parkville Hotel.
50.Residential Cottages.
51. Council Houses. (Coatshill)
Whins Rd West End. -- Priory Pit, Blantyreferme Pit, Tenement Building at Fin-me-oot.(Uddingston)Boundary
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Margaret
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streets of blantyre
Well Good Evening 
THD, good to see you back online, I have just priinted out your wanderings and will go make coffee and enjoy another trip through Blantyre. HOpe you had a good holiday
THD, good to see you back online, I have just priinted out your wanderings and will go make coffee and enjoy another trip through Blantyre. HOpe you had a good holiday
Cheers
Margaret
researching:: Morton, Miller, Finlay, McDonald, Bullock, Forrester. Glasgow and Kilmarnock areas
Margaret
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Margaret
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Hello TDH
I am hoping you may be able to jog my memory for me, as a 6 year old way back in 1949 my Mother took me to see the outside of the building that my Dad had lived in at sometime (maybe when she met him). I think it was called Chambers/Chalmers Building in High Blantyre, in the memory of that day she also showed me a park at the end of a street, I think I was looking up a hill towards the park and in the park was a statue of a Queen, once again I think Victoria or maybe Mary Queens of Scots. Would you have any idea where this park is. To a six year old it looked a very large statue and a very cross looking queen.
Just been looking at the Honeymoon kids photo are you in it?
I am hoping you may be able to jog my memory for me, as a 6 year old way back in 1949 my Mother took me to see the outside of the building that my Dad had lived in at sometime (maybe when she met him). I think it was called Chambers/Chalmers Building in High Blantyre, in the memory of that day she also showed me a park at the end of a street, I think I was looking up a hill towards the park and in the park was a statue of a Queen, once again I think Victoria or maybe Mary Queens of Scots. Would you have any idea where this park is. To a six year old it looked a very large statue and a very cross looking queen.
Just been looking at the Honeymoon kids photo are you in it?
Cheers
Margaret
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Margaret
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drapadew
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Margaret.
As you are entering into Blantyre from Burnbank.On the left/hand side of the Glasgow Road stood a building called the Chalmers Building.
This Building belonged to Chalmers the Haulage Contractors.This Building was situated in Blantyre and not in High Blantyre.
I can never remember seeing a statue of a queen anywhere in Blantyre.I asked a couple of old buddys of mine and they can never remember seeing any such statue.Sorry,i think you must have seen it some where else
TDH
As you are entering into Blantyre from Burnbank.On the left/hand side of the Glasgow Road stood a building called the Chalmers Building.
This Building belonged to Chalmers the Haulage Contractors.This Building was situated in Blantyre and not in High Blantyre.
I can never remember seeing a statue of a queen anywhere in Blantyre.I asked a couple of old buddys of mine and they can never remember seeing any such statue.Sorry,i think you must have seen it some where else
TDH
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Hello Darpadew
Thank for the info on the building, I guess my memory as a 6 year old is a bit fuzzy, I hope I find that statue by chance when we are in Scotland where ever it maybe as it is a very strong picture in this tired old head.
Have you seen how many people are reading your stories of Blantyre...or even just looking over 16,000...amazing place this TS...
Thank for the info on the building, I guess my memory as a 6 year old is a bit fuzzy, I hope I find that statue by chance when we are in Scotland where ever it maybe as it is a very strong picture in this tired old head.
Have you seen how many people are reading your stories of Blantyre...or even just looking over 16,000...amazing place this TS...
Cheers
Margaret
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Margaret
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Re: streets in blantyre.....
I have really enjoyed reading about the streets of Blantyre and i'm sure Richardson's the butchers, in the sixties, used to have a van that drove round Blantyre selling meat, eggs and dripping. I recall stepping into the back of the van and reeling at the thought of beef ham, never liked the stuff. 
I recall the co-op in Low Blantryre where i used to get my school shoes and popping into see (late) Tina Lloyd in the haberdashery/millinery department.
Double nougats and snowballs at Peter the Tally were enjoyed before we went back up to High Blantyre.
I love Blantyre and when i visit i always go to Timbertown and re-live my life there spent every holiday with my gran whom i adored.
My gran left Stonefield Road and was the first resident in her wooden bungalow which still stands today. Somethings never change, thank goodness, even though they were built as a stop gap for much needed housing.
I recall the co-op in Low Blantryre where i used to get my school shoes and popping into see (late) Tina Lloyd in the haberdashery/millinery department.
Double nougats and snowballs at Peter the Tally were enjoyed before we went back up to High Blantyre.
I love Blantyre and when i visit i always go to Timbertown and re-live my life there spent every holiday with my gran whom i adored.
My gran left Stonefield Road and was the first resident in her wooden bungalow which still stands today. Somethings never change, thank goodness, even though they were built as a stop gap for much needed housing.
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Re: streets in blantyre.....
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I hope you find the site useful, there are a lot of friendly and helpful folk here.
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Stewie
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Hi Timbertown
So glad you enjoyed our walk through Blantyre Streets, Drapadew did such a grand job and when you look at the number of people who have visited our pages it is amazing. Welcome to TS I hope you get as much help as I have over the years and enjoy the company here.
cheers
Margaret
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here is another great Blanture site http://www.blantyre.biz/Streets-of-Blantyre.html
So glad you enjoyed our walk through Blantyre Streets, Drapadew did such a grand job and when you look at the number of people who have visited our pages it is amazing. Welcome to TS I hope you get as much help as I have over the years and enjoy the company here.
cheers
Margaret
ps
here is another great Blanture site http://www.blantyre.biz/Streets-of-Blantyre.html
Cheers
Margaret
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Margaret
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