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Customers at Hastie’s Farm Licensed Restaurant got a nice surprise on Monday 30th October 1967. The restaurant and bar, just off Victoria Street was packed as normal on that Monday night as families socialised. In the corner in previous weeks was an empty space where the black and white TV had been for watching evening […]
Going back 53 years next. The last week in July 1967, was not a good week for crashes in Blantyre. Several accidents resulted in significant lengths of walls being demolished. First, an articulated lorry collided with the boundary wall of Anderson Church on Stonefield Road resulting in about 20 feet of boundary wall and iron […]
The last two photos in the set showing Blantyreferme and the efforts made in September 1986 to reduce the former Colliery Bing. The farm fields next to the main Blantyreferme Road were restored by a significant reduction in levels, removing much of the bing, that had been there for almost 100 years before. Amongst the […]
In Summer 1967, the David Livingstone Centre was visited by the son of President Kaunda of Zambia. Mr Panji Kuanda was taken round the birthplace of the famous missionary and shown many relics which came from his own country, some as the picture shows, which he recognised! For 2 years, Panji had been at Sandhurst Military […]
Photos next from September 1986 and to the north of Blantyre is Blantyreferme. This photos represent the reduction of the Colliery bings, a significant effort to restore the ground back closer to the existing field levels. The large remnants of the colliery bings removed and taken away, removing most of the signs of the former […]
Looking at some people stories today. In Summer 1967, Mr Gerry McCann, formerly of Blantyre came back home from New York for the first time in 40 years to visit family and friends. A Blantyre boy he was educated at St Josephs. He left school to work as a woodflour miller at Walker’s Mill at […]
There was considerable alarm in High Blantyre in Summer 1967 when a freak vehicle accident left a young boy trapped. Two year old Henry Canavan had been playing in a neighbour’s garden at 10 Afton Street, High Blantyre when a vehicle accident outside his home took place. A moving bread van travelling at speed at […]
Bobbie Hamilton sent me a message saying “My husband’s Great-Grandmother, Janet Boyd, was born in Blantyre in 1870. In the 1890’s, she worked on Alexander Lambie’s farm, Pilmuir Farm, in Scotland. While working as a farm servant on the farm in 1894, she became pregnant, left the farm, returned home to Blantyre and gave birth […]
These four photos are from 1979. Pictured from Whistleberry , they look across to the former Craighead Bing. A fairly bleak scene and one of the last remnants of visible colliery Bings in Blantyre.