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A brand new concept was the subject of a presentation on Wednesday 12th October 1910 at the High Blantyre Women’s Guild. The subject that evening at 8pm was “Aviation” a relatively new industry, which was presented to the ladies by an expert lecturer and illustrated on screen by lime light views. The Guild opened the […]
Rosendale Football Team or ‘Blantyre Rosendale’ was a former local football team which formed in April 1910. By Setpember that year, their skills were attracting interest from the community who compared their relatively new talents to some of Blantyre’s older teams. The team comprised of players largely from the Rosendale Tenements just off Glasgow Road. This was just one of […]
In September 1910, Mr James Main, a hawker from Douglas Street, High Blantyre was up in court for having broken a pane of glass at nearby Greenhall House. Whilst that doesn’t seem serious, you have to consider Greenhall House was then a private property, in a private estate and more than one crime had allegedly […]
One of the earliest cinemas in Blantyre was the Electric Theatre. The first class electric theatre was opened in the Old Masonic Hall in 1910 on the north side of Glasgow Road at the corner of Forrest Street. The hall better known as the Livingstonian Hall, proved a very popular local rendezvous, and received a […]
Now this advert in the Hamilton Herald in 1910 certainly puzzled me. On one particular Saturday in December 1910 two tons of linoleum and 500 pairs of curtains were being sold at Logan Street, Blantyre. The strange thing is, knowing that Logan Street had only been formed for a few years earlier, in 1910, it […]
A stark reminder of the dangers men faced working in coal mines comes to light in this terrible story, in which the life of a Blantyre man changed irreversibly on Thursday 12th February 1911. Alexander McComisky (41) of Greenside Place, Low Blantyre left for work as normal that day and little known to him was […]
In April 1911, the Committee of the District of the Middle Ward of the County of Lanark was seeking to improve pedestrian crossing points on Lanarkshire’s muddy roads. Perhaps something we take for granted these days, but 110 years ago, the simple act of crossing the road could leave your boots far from sparkling. Crossing […]