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Rosendale

Remember Rosendale?

Situated in Glasgow Road, where Reid Printers is now, Rosendale was a Blantyre landmark.

Rosendale, 3 storey red sandstone building.

The building, situated at the corner of Glasgow Road and Auchinraith Road, was erected by David Dale of the Workers Village and named after his wife Rose. Built in the early 1800’s. This picture was taken in the early 1970’s.

Auchinraith Club at end of same building.

 

Hi Bill,

I lived in Rosendale as a nipper from 1948 to 1954. My mum , Cathie Callaghan (nee Fagan), was a teacher at St Joseph's and my dad, Joe Callaghan, was a miner at Cardowan. They lived in Rosendale for some time before I was born on 7th May 1948.

We lived up several different closes and I remember it as a very happy place with not much money but loads of community spirit. Everybody knew everybody and  looked out for each other's weans. We had plenty of freedom and the only fly in the ointment were The Springies (Springwells kids) who used to invade across the railway line at the far end of Rosendale. This always resulted in a battle with stones (using the ballast off the railway) before we moved to close quarters with sticks and stuff  These battles regularly resulted in injuries to even small kids. I left when I was 6, by which time I'd already had my arm broken by a stick and my head split by a stone. Happy days eh?

Andy Callaghan

 

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