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Some more photos now of the Traveller site that sprang up on Glasgow Road in 1981. Taken 40 years ago, the caravans are located near the top of John Street and at the top of Forrest Street. Vantage points are from across Glasgow Road in the foreground. Can anybody remember the caravans. Looks like the […]
This is a school photo taken in Blantyre and whilst the school and actual year is unknown, there is a LOT of information about the names of pupils and the teacher, which I’m hoping will be able to identify both the school and a more approximate year. I’m going to say this looks like the […]
“Bomb Girls” is a book which tells the intimate and unforgettable personal stories of a group of women whose hard work and quiet courage helped Britain win WW2. They are the unsung heroines of WW2, the wives, mothers and teenage girls who worked in munitions factories to make explosives, shells, bullets and bombs. One such […]
Marion Turner shared this old photo of her mother’s oldest sister (her aunt). The family think the little girl may be around 10 years old in this photo. Pictured is Barbara Anderson Hamilton Denholm who was born in 1895 in Hamilton. The eldest 3 children of this family were born in Hamilton and the family […]
A little extract from Jimmy Cornfields ‘flitting’ story where a cairt is taken around some streets in Blantyre as a family move home. The map is 1910, but the story is a couple of decades later. Jimmy wrote, “The cairt went up Dixon Street, turned right intae Stonefield Road, passin’ Jock Miller’s Piggery, Murdoch’s Pub, […]
A final part in the story of Auchinraith Pit Disaster which happened on Saturday 30th August 1930. Continued from Part 10 yesterday. At the cemetery at High Blantyre, the scene was both impressive and sombre. The chief mourners passed through the ranks of St Josephs Silver Band which played the dead march from Saul and […]
We’re taking a wee trip down memory lane this week. Jogging the memory. Though some of the picture’s aren’t Blantyre, I’m keen on hearing your memories put into a local context.First up who remembers the old sweetie shops, with MASSIVE bars of chocolate, great selections and when tins of sweets were literally that, huge tins! […]
