Courts and land
A local-history account says the club’s arrangements were made through Mrs Catherine Weir of 16 Victoria Street and that the club purchased land from trustees of John Clark Forrest. It dates establishment of the courts and pavilion to between 1910 and 1915. The 1915 annual rent is reported as £5 10s. The same source says that the adjacent bowling club was still renting its ground from the Forrest trustees while owning its clubhouse. These details suggest that the two clubs shared a concentrated sports landscape while holding different property arrangements; the cited retrospective does not reproduce the leases, conveyances or valuation-roll entries. blantyre project lawn tennis club
The source identifies a 1963 photograph that reportedly shows the courts still in use. This provides a dated visual lead. The site’s later closure, redevelopment and relationship to the current streetscape remain undocumented here. Local-history account
Tennis within local recreation
The Third Statistical Account of 1952 says private bowling greens and tennis courts were well patronised in summer evenings. It does not name this club, report membership or define whether the courts were open to non-members. Its observation places tennis within a wider parish leisure system that included parks, school playing fields, church-hall activities, cinemas and youth organisations. third statistical account blantyre 1952