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1542 – Vellum Indenture documents discussing Blantyre priory

1542 Vellum Indenture document

1606 – Lord Blantyre Crest

1606 Lord Blantyre Crest

1633 – Early Blantyre School

17th Century School Blantyre

1707 – John Jacksons will

1707 John Jacksons will

1718 – High Blantyre Parish Communion Token

1718 Communion token Blantyre Parish Church at Kirkton

1765 – Crossbasket Castle sketches

1765 Calderwood Tower sketch from Co-op publication 1904.

1765 Crossbasket Sketch showing a signature “T Ross or Goss”

1765 Sketch of Crossbasket Tower and Mansion House by P Sandby?

1769 – Sale of Birdsfield and Bellsfield

1769 Bellsfield and Birdsfield for sale

1771 – Barnhill

1771 Barnhill

1780 – Cart Tax Blantyre

1780 Millhaugh, Cart Tax

1781 – Margaret Dalziel Birth Certificate

1781 Margaret Dalziel Birth certificate

1787 – Mining Token Coin , found at Calderside Farm

Coin found at Calderside Farm

1797 – Janet Smith birth records

1797 Janet Smith birth record

1806 – Lord Blantyre Letter

1806 Letter to Lord Blantyre, owned by PV

1806 Letter to Lord Blantyre (PV)

1808 – Leggat Ancestry

Banns 1808 Matthew Leggat and Margaret Gilmour at Avondale

Banns 12 June 1808 Matthew Leggat and Margaret Gilmour at Eastkilbride

1815 – Scots Grays killed at Waterloo

1815 Scots Grays killed at Waterloo

1821 – James Mackie Birth records

James Mackie Birth record 1821

1826 – Elizabeth Mackie Birth records

Elisabeth Mackie birth record 1826

1827 – Cochrane Ancestry of Calderglen

Cochrane Ancestry

1829 – Robert Mackie Birth records

Robert Mackie birth record 1829

1832 – High Blantyre Parish Communion Token

1832 Communion Token Blantyre Parish Church

1838 – Inventory of James Millar of Milheugh

James Millars Inventory 1838 Part 5 of 5

James Millars Inventory 1838 Part 1 of 5

James Millars Inventory 1838 Part 4 of 5

James Millars Inventory 1838 Part 2 of 5

James Millars Inventory 1838 Part 3 of 5

1848 – Cholera Notice

1848 Cholera Notice in Blantyre

1849 – Advert in the Herald

1849 advert in Herald

1850 – Liddell /Lees wedding

1850 Liddell -Lees wedding

1855 – Valuation Roll Blantyre

1855 Village Store owned by Monteith, later Village Bar

1856 – 1st Edition of Hamilton Advertiser

1856 Hamilton Advertiser (PV)

1859 – Narrative describing various Blantyre buildings

1859 Loanend Farm

1859 account of Springwell House

1859 account Old Mains

1859 Account Springfield

1859 Description of Archers Croft

1859 account of Broompark

1859 Account of Westneuk

1859 Account Blantyre Cottonworks

1859 account Clive Place

1859 Priory Document

1859 Account of Greencroft

1850 Brickworks

1861 – Ancestry leggats

Marriage 1861 Janet Hamilton and Matthew Leggat

1861 census leggat at Greenblairs

1862 – Blantyre Handbook and Business Directory

1862 Blantyre Handbook

1862 Blantyre Directory

1863 – To be uploaded soon
1864 – Ancestry Leggats

Death 1864 Matthew Leggat married to Janet Hamilton

1865 – 1870 – To be uploaded soon
1871 – Census Auchentibber

1871 Peasweep

1872 – 1873 – To be uploaded soon
1874 – Mineral Line to Pit 4 by Caledonian Railways

1874 Mineral Line plans to Larkfield Pit 4

1875 – Valuation Roll. James B H Struthers birth

1875 Flora McIntyre Valuation Roll

JBH Struthers 1875 Birth Certificate

1876 – To be uploaded soon
1877 – Lamentation of Jane Sneddon. Dixons Row Deaths from Blantyre Explosion.

1877 Lamentation of Jane Sneddon

1877 Red dots showing deaths at Dixons Rows of the miners in the pit explosion

1878 – To be uploaded soon
1879 – Naismiths Business Directory and Blantyre adverts

1879 Naismiths Directory Adverts

1879 Naismiths Business Directory

1880 – To be uploaded soon
1881 – Caledonian Railway Hunthill Road Junction permissions

1881 Inspection of Railway

1881 Implementing Signals at Hunthill

1881 Caldeonian Approval

1881 Application for early operation

1881 Testimony of planned junction

1881 Caledonian Railway Approval

1881 Approval of Railway Junction

1881 Hunthill Road Junction

1881 Approval for use of Junction

1882 – Livingstone’s Brother

1882 Livingstone’s Brother

1883 – To be uploaded soon
1884 – To be uploaded soon

1884 Engraving of Livingstone attack by Lion

1885 – Valuation roll showing Struthers at Priestfield

1885 Valuation roll showing Struthers at Priestfield

1886 – to be uploaded soon
1887 – Ancestry Leggats

Marriage 1887 Matthew Leggat and Isabella Fleming

1888 – Flora McIntyre tries to sell Auchentibber Inn

1888 Flora McIntyre tries to sell Auchentibber Inn

1889 – 1891 – To be uploaded soon
1892 – Church Halls Bazaar

1892 Church Bazaar cover

1892 Old Parish Church Bazaar inside

1893 – Old Parish Church Halls accounts

1893 Accounts for Parish Church Hall (PV)

1894 – To be uploaded soon

1895 – Valuation Roll for Blantyre (incomplete)

1895 Valuation Roll Blantyre

1895 Woodside Sale

1895 Valuation Roll Blantyre

1896 – To be uploaded soon
1897 – Blantyre – Co-operative tokens. High Blantyre Railway Siding

1897 Railway Siding, High Blantyre

Co-operative Checks or Tokens

1897 Railway Siding at High Blantyre Station

1898 – To be uploaded soon
1899 – Forrest and Mains Ancestry. Flora McIntyre death certificate.

1899 Flora McIntyre death certificate

Forrest Riddel tree with notes by G Park

Cowie / Main tree with notes by G Park

Main / Forrest tree by the Cochranes (amended by G Park)

1900 – Calderglen Wedding Victoria Maitland Cochrane

c1900 Hermit Hut Drawing by Pastor Walter Wilson of Baptist Church

1900 Marriage of Victoria Cochrane

1901 – Leggat Ancestry. Peasweep Census.

Death 1901 Matthew Leggat married Isabella Fleming

1901 Matthew Leggat of Springpark

1891 Peasweep Rows

1901 Census James Hislop

1901 census Leggat family

1902 – 1902 – To be uploaded soon
1903 – Rare photos of Blantyre, Lennox MA

1903 Rare photo of rear of Blantyre hotel, Lennox MA

1903 Blantyre Hotel, Lennox, MA

1903 Gardner at Lennox Hotel

1904 – To be uploaded soon
1905 – Back of Stonefield Postcard. Leggat Ancestry.

Marriage 1905 Isabella Fleming Leggat and Hugh Murchie

1905 Rear of Stonefield Postcard

1906 – 1907 – To be uploaded soon
1908 – Save the woman

1908 Advert Save the woman

1909 – 1910 – To be uploaded soon
1911 – Norman Morrison Army Records

1911 Norman Morrison

1912 – 1914 – To be uploaded soon
1915 – Poem to Hugh Boyle, Auchentibber. Captain James Brown Grave record

1915 Poem for Hugh Boyle, Auchentibber

1914 Andrew Frew Medals

1915 Captain James Brown Grave Records

1915 Calderview Valuation Book

1916 – Auchentibber School Register 1916 – 1959.

Auchentibber School Register 1916 – 1959

Auchentibber School Register No. 26 - 50 sh 2

Auchentibber School Register 1916 – 1959

Auchentibber School Register No. 176 - 200 sh 1

Auchentibber School Register 1916 – 1959

Auchentibber School Admission Register 1916 – 1959

Auchentibber School Register 1916 – 1959

1917 – Joseph Barr Will written in trenches

1917 Joseph Barr will written in trenches

1918 – Robert Nimmo short service records

Robert Nimmo d1918 Short Service Record Part 2

Robert Nimmo d1918 Short Service Record Part 1

1919 – Andrew Frew discharge papers

1919 Andrew Frew military discharge

1920 – To be uploaded soon
1921 – Passenger list showing Adelaide Cochrane. J.R Citroen of Calderglen’s will.

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 21 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 15 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 30 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 36 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 33 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 10 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 8 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 27 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 24 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 3 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 4 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 13 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 35 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 23 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 32 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 6 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 19 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 34 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane Will 1

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 16 of 36

1921 Adelaide on Passenger list

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 18 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 11 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 12 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 28 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 20 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 7 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 9 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 26 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 14 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 29 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 25 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 17 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 22 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 5 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 31 of 36

1921 J.R Cochrane’s Will Page 2 of 36

1922 – Bible Presentation to Mary Danskin from UF Church. Letters of Recommendation

1922 Bible Prize Mary Danskin (PV)

1923 – Letter of Recommendation

1923 Recommendation letter

1924 – Letter of Recommendation

1924 Recommendation letter

1925 – Barnhill Templetons Telegram, owned by PV. Letter of Recommendations.

1925 Recommendation letter

1925 Telegram to Templetons (Owned by PV)

1925 Recommendation letter

1926 – 1929 – To be uploaded soon

1930 – Letitia Passenger list. Auchinraith Colliery Blast. Bottle collection and Milk Tokens. Lodge Livingstone Stonefield 599.

1960s Millk Co-op Tokens shared by C Gray

1930 Blantyre Postcard

1930s SCWS Bottles shared by C Gray

1930 John Duncan lifelong membership Lodge Livingstone

1930s Milk Bottles shared by C Gray

1930 Bothwell Postcard

1930 Letitia Passenger List

1930 Auchinraith Pit disaster

1931 – 1935 – To be uploaded soon
1936 – Mid 1930s Train Tickets for High Blantyre.

1930s Dog Train Ticket, by G Cook (High Blantyre)

1930s or 40s Various Train Tickets. Shared by G Cook.

1930s Reverse of Dog Ticket for Train (High Blantyre)

1937 – Blantyre Cookery Book

1937 Blantyre Cookery Book

1938 – Outdoor concert at David Livingstone Centre. JBH Struthers death cert. Blantyre Pageant.

1938 Blantyre Pageant from Blantyre Gazette (PV)

JBH Struthers 1938 Death Certificate

1938 Advert Blantyre outdoor concert

1939 – Open air pool

1939 Open air pool

1940 – 1942 – To be uploaded soon
1943 – Heroes remembered. David Livingstone Centre guidebook.

A 1940s 4th Edition of the David Livingstone Guidebook

1943 Heroes remembered

1944 – 1946 – To be uploaded soon
1947 – Co-operative society expansion

Blantyre Cooperative Society

1948 – 1952 – To be uploaded soon
1953 – Livingstone Centre map

1950s Milk Tokens shared by C Gray

1953 Livingstone Memorial Map

1954 – To be uploaded soon
1955 – To be uploaded soon

1955 Broadway Advert

1955 Blantyre Picture House Advert

1956 – Anderson Church Sunday School Perfect Attendance stickers

1950s Anderson Church Perfect Attendance book

1957 – Theft of Explosives at Dixons

1957 Explosive Store theft

1958 – 1959 – To be uploaded soon
1960 – Blantyre Co-operative Tokens

1960s Blantyre co-op Milk Tokens

1961 – Triennial Review

Triennial Review 1961

1962 -1964 – To be uploaded soon
1965 – Crossbasket fete opening James Little Training College

1965 Crossbasket opening of James Little College

1966 – 1968 – To be uploaded soon
1969 – Summer Gala

1969 3rd May Garden Fete. From Neil Scott

1970 – 1975 – To be uploaded soon
1976 – Old Parish Church magazine and letter

1976 Old Parish Letter from Mr Silcox

1976 Old Parish Magazine

1977 – Land Acquisition Stonefield