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McLean's, Main Street, High Blantyre

Bill - some info on the High Blantyre main Street photo titled McLean's - which is the paper shop with the yellow awning half way down the street.

The other yellow awning further down was the Co-op draper. The two low hut-shaped buildings in between were where the Orange Band would practice and they had a boxing club for a while. I went a few times as a kid but couldn't get used to getting punched on the nose!

Across the street from the co-op drapers was the 'barracks' building where I was born. The orange fronted building down from the 2 men with bunnets was McDonalds ice cream shop for a while and the corner where they're standing is the entrance into the public park (home in the 1950's to High Blantyre Hearts; who were Lanarkshire juvenile cup-winners at one time (players like 'Trigger' Dunsmuir, the Goalkeeper, Wullie Tallis and Jake Brownlee were the stars in those days).

The large tree is in a field of Whitefords farm and where the picture is taken is the corner of JB's pub (became the Apollo lounge sometime later).

Jon Dorricott

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