On Tuesday 8th November 2016, just before a Committee meeting, I was lucky enough to be invited along by the Carrigan family for a sneak preview of their new pub in Broompark Road. I’d been keeping a eye on the construction work, as pictured here in the outside photo on 19th October 2016. The […]
Looking through some family photos, here is my great grandmother’s former shop, Danskins at the corner of Stonefield Road and Broompark Road. The date is around 1923 or so. The shop is still there today, although now a newsagents. In the background we see the gable of Little’s Building, the Little family also owning the […]
The following provides a good description of Blantyre Mills in 1860. “The buildings in which the cotton-spinning was carried on in the year 1805 have remained very much as they were, but by this introduction of improved machinery the work in those buildings, as well as keeping the machinery and buildings in repair, is now efficiently […]
The following document was published in 1860 and reflects upon Mary Berry’s journal of 1805 and updates things with a description of how Blantyre Mills was functioning in the year 1860. “The factory thus described called Blantyre, situated on the left bank of the Clyde, about four miles below Hamilton, and continues to be […]
Continuing our look at Mary Berry’s 1805 Journal entry when this English Aristocrat visited Blantyre Mills. On 8th November 1805, Mary was staying in Bothwell House and visited the Blantyre Mills to see the processes for herself. Mary also observes the humble beginnings of the Village. She wrote, “I have said that the whole […]
Continued from Part 1 ,this is an extract of Mary Berry’s journals from 08 November 1805. Speaking of hundreds of children employed in the Cotton Mills and conditions inside Blantyre works, Mary writes of her visit that day, “In the mean time all such care is taken of these children as perhaps in such a situation is […]
On 5th November, Margaret Sanderson was kind enough to drop by my home to share a few things belonging to her family. Pictured here in 1942 is Betty Graham and Jessie Gibson at the back of Sneddons Buildings on High Blantyre Main Street. The back of these buildings faced directly on to the current […]