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Following several catastrophic fires in Blantyre during 1978, the fire brigade formed an initiative to go round local schools, telling kids a bit more about what they do in the event of emergencies. This included approaching nursery schools to give youngsters a basic understanding of fire fighting. In September 1978, as these pictures show, the […]
I’m trying to work out what year this photo was. The story is the picture represents 40 years of the Jack Horner Playgroup being in High Blantyre. I can say Mary Carr from the butchers and Cllr Bert Thomson. I also see Cathy McInally at the back. To celebrate the event, pupils from John Ogilvie […]
These photos previously not seen online took me somewhat by surprise as I thought the Blantyre Markets ended in 1982. When the market was forced to move away from the Hastie’s site, it moved temporarily to Glasgow Road, but development and the building of Devlin Grove forced, even that contingency to be squashed. A new […]
Following some soul searching, I’ve decided to further delay the launch of my largest, latest book, “Blantyre People“. The book that’s taken me 9 years to write, features the stories of 1,500 Blantyre lives over 8 Centuries and is fully written, edited and checked. The spine is the thickness of a brick and its by […]
Feeling rather housebound like the rest of the country today. This public health crisis has a long way to go before being resolved in the UK, and already after week 1, I’m longing to be outdoors more for a change of scenery. So what better than a couple of photos of outdoors. Let’s go back […]
Ellen Buchanan sent in this photo and said, “This is my Dad Jimmy (Feg) Lanaghan serving in WW2 1939-1945 x” Pictured around 1939, Jimmy was originally a coal miner before being called up for WW2. He was amongst the first groups of men to be called to fight. Jimmy and his wife, Isobel lived in miner’s terraced […]
Davy Thomson shared this lovely photo of his parents taken in the late 1940’s (recently colourised by ‘Scotland Colourised’). Davy asks, “Hi Paul,, can you get any info on when and where my mum and dad married? I was only 7 when they both passed, so I don’t have much info on them.” I can […]
More Glasgow Road photos from 1980. Previously unseen online, this is the building of Clydeview Shopping Centre, the upper units already built in the existing western side of the centre. The ASDA warehouse is well progressed and the steelwork of the corner premises still being built. The other photo shows bollard over the redundant entrance […]
Recent photos of Glasgow Road in 1980 have been well received online, so I’ll show some more this week. Here’s the construction of ASDA in 1980. The roof of the warehouse is complete and in the foreground you can see the building of the library on the corner, though back then it was to be […]
