Brid Graney emailed to say, “Hello. I recently found out that my great grandfather from Ireland worked in Blantyre from 1898 and died in 1908. He was buried in St. Peter’s Dalbeth. My family and I are planning a visit to the cemetery in June and would like to make a short visit to Blantyre. […]
Hopefully this is another new photo for you! Back to the mid 80’s and the former Blantyre High School. Pictured are several teachers some of whom taught me as a teenager. Can you name them? Thanks to Simon Downie for this trip down memory lane.
Ian “Jimmy” Binning was a Scottish Footballer who played for Arbroath and Dumfries side Queen of the South. Born on 25th July 1927 in Blantyre, he lived above Kelly’s Bar at number 10 Auchinraith Road. The son of James Binning, who rented that property. His interest and passion in football started from an early age, living close […]
This is of course Bothwell Bridge. Photographed from the Bothwell side looking across to the opposing riverbank which would in time become the lido park, later the expressway. An engraving by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, the bridge had been remodelled only a couple of decades earlier, widening it, making it more level and removing a large […]
How fast Auchentibber’s landscape is changing in 2019. The upper fields, high above Blantyre, focusing around the derelict farm are fast transforming in Spring and Summer 2019 as earth is shifted around, levelling fields, infilling hollows and ponds and the like. Hedgerows give way to new fences and the fields themselves ready to be reseeded […]
It’s Gala Day in Blantyre so we need a fitting post today. The annual children’s gala day hosted by Blantyre Co-operative Society (Ltd.) was held on Saturday 31st July 1917. The weather was ideal for such event and war in Europe did not hamper attendance to any great extent. Close on 7000 people most of […]
Here’s a brilliant photo full of character. Two Blantyre gents stand on Glasgow Road outside the former iconic Post Office Building. The chap to the left possibly had nickname ‘old snowy’. I’m unsure who the person on the right is. Do you recognise these men? In the background, the Clydeview Shopping Centre has been built. The […]
Arguably, one of my most favourite Blantyre photos. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you , for the first time seen here, the former Cochrane Chapel, in all its glory, just over 110 years ago! Once located at Calderglen, near where Kirkwall Avenue, Priory Bridge is now, this is an exclusive photo and to best of […]