Book Launch: Journey in Time Vol 4
I’m excited and proud to release tonight a brand new Blantyre book, “Blantyre Project – A Journey in Time Volume 4“. Continuing the popular and successful series, this book has […]
Dunn’s Food and Drink
I’ll soon be writing about all the businesses to have existed on the north side of Glasgow Road. Having found this excellent article about “Dunn’s Food and Drink” by Karen […]
Livingstone : Life & Death
Attached is David Livingstone’s birth certificate which can be found with a simple search on various ancestry websites. Perhaps however, more uncommon is the will of David Livingstone eg. records […]
Maggie Leitch & Walter Loudon, 1913
A remarkable coincidence occurred in the late 19th Century when Walter Loudon was living in the very same house his wife was born in! Walter worked in Earnock Quarries in […]
Calderside Row, 1944
Norma Marr in Canada has shared this excellent WW2 photo of Calderside Row, taken around 1944. She told me, “This is May MacFarlane, my mother Margaret Downie Patrick Lawrence, and her/their […]
Remembrance Events
Priestfield Hall, High Blantyre People are invited back to Priestfield Hall, High Blantyre at 3.30pm today, Sunday 11th November 2018 to hear Gordon Cook’s presentation about Auchentibber history. The event […]
11th hour, Auchentibber
A dozen people turned up at Auchentibber Memorial at 11am today, 11th November 2018 to remember the 14 Auchentibber men who died in the First World War and to mark […]
Life of Charles Frame
It’s difficult to imagine the tales of heroism, anguish and horror which many faced during the fighting on the Western Front in the First World War without history being written […]
1979 A Brother Remembers
As remembrance day arrives, scenes like these are repeated all over the country, like this one pictured on Sunday 11th November 1979. As the first snow of the year […]