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 […]
These are all Blantyre adverts from 142 years ago. James Hazels the plumber, Robert Stewart the slater and plasterer, Robert Davidson sawmills at Auchinraith and David McNaughton had opened the Livingston Tavern. However, my favourite, if only for its excellent detail is JB Struthers who had just opened the hall at High Blantyre, the hall […]
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A couple of receipts from none other than Walter Batters, the furnishing, ironmongers, china merchant and seedsman. These receipts were for items David McIntosh bought in 1971 and in 1980, the Batters family clearly still using the same receipt registers. Looking at the numbers 23001 and 16492, it is possible that this could mean Batters […]