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Some exciting news tonight! Blantyre Project has launched its 11th history book about Blantyre! A remote launch online tonight, “The Story of the National Memorial to David Livingstone” is the first of several small affordable books to be launched in the remainder of 2021. This publication charts the remarkable, detailed story of how Blantyre slum […]
The Scottish National Memorial to David Livingstone opened on Saturday 5th October 1929 with a visit to Blantyre by royalty. This opening programme, preserved here in good condition outlines what happened that day and was a brilliant souvenir for anybody attending. The new museum was opened by HRH Duchess of York (the Queen Mother) with […]
Now this advert in the Hamilton Herald in 1910 certainly puzzled me. On one particular Saturday in December 1910 two tons of linoleum and 500 pairs of curtains were being sold at Logan Street, Blantyre. The strange thing is, knowing that Logan Street had only been formed for a few years earlier, in 1910, it […]
From this week, all 10 Blantyre Project books now have a permanent retail outlet at the new Livingstone’s Cafe! The sale of books from a dedicated place has been missing since the fire in the Miners Resource Centre and with thanks to the kindness of Hazel Krawczyk, these charitable local history books can now be […]
Janice Rodgers shared this interesting extract about the Auchintibber Women’s War Work Party. From February 1918, it shows their income of £64 and expenditure of £53 going out to the lads in the trenches. £14 coming from the Auchentibber Quoiting Club. During that year, 158 letters and parcels had been sent to the soldiers at […]
“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 […]
Dr John McArthur recently sent me this lovely little Jubilee Brochure from 1930. It celebrates with a soiree on 25th June 1930, the 50th Year Anniversary of the former Church, once located on Glasgow Road. The souvenir brochure, beautifully embossed, explored key events in the history of the church and also featured a programme of […]