Two photos taken 117 years apart at exactly the same location. Strangely, Broompark Road carriageway has actually reduced in width over the years to make the pavements wider and provide safer turning for vehicles. The black and white photo is from 1905 taken at the corner of Blakely’s Pub and of course the pub still […]
Blantyre Project reader, Rhona Johnsen recently sent in this photo. She told me, “My grandparents Elizabeth McClements (McClimens originally) and Andrew Mains are seen as an engaged couple here in February 1933 in the top right corner of the photo. They were married on 26th December 1933 in Blantyre. In the photo they seem to […]
Members of St Joseph’s Church, Blantyre are pictured in costumes for a play they produced to entertain the residents of Blantyre. Held in the Co-operative Hall on Wednesday 5th November 1930, the chosen play was “The Colleen Bawn”, a rather dark, melodramatic but well known Irish Play. Amateur Dramatics seems to have fallen by the […]
This was just a section of the enormous crowd which gathered and lined up along Glasgow Road for the funeral of a popular Blantyre Priest in 1930. The camera looks toward the entrance of St Joseph’s Church and the funeral of Rev. Father Thomas O’Halloran which took place on the morning of Wednesday, 1st October […]
The funeral procession of the 6 victims of the Auchinraith Colliery disaster trundles up Auchinraith Road towards High Blantyre. Just look at the crowds who turned out to pay their respects! The location is on Auchinraith Road, at the top of Merry’s Rows (Elm Street) which is just out the picture to the left. The […]
I posted yesterday showing the crowd attending the funeral of Auchinraith Colliery victims in 1930. This photo perhaps better demonstrates the scale of onlookers. Taken at the junction corner of Auchinraith Road and Craig Street, the crowds were immense. On Saturday 30th August 1930, a huge explosion occurred at Number 1 pit, Auchinrath colliery belonging […]
This sad scene was a very busy funeral cortege as Blantyre suffered another terrible mining tragedy in 1930. Six men lost their lives at Auchinraith Colliery on 30th August 1930 and a few days later the dead were buried. Mass crowds lined Auchinraith Road to pay their respects, of which those pictured represented just some […]