A snippet from the Hamilton Herald 2nd October 1896, a newspaper describing the Blantyre column news from 127 years ago. This was the remainder of the news that week: “Last week the village was ‘en fete’, the occasion being a marriage in the Parish Church. The marriage caused a lot of stir in the place, […]
A snippet from the Hamilton Herald 2nd October 1896, a newspaper describing the Blantyre column news from 127 years ago. Hope you find these jottings interesting. This was the news that week: “We see from the papers that Mr Carnegie has been opening a library at Auchterarder. Could some of our local dignitaries not whisper […]
Due to prior commitments elsewhere, I’m unusually unable to attend the Remembrance Service in Blantyre this year, so ahead of the service at 3pm, wreaths were placed at both the Auchentibber and High Blantyre War Memorials. These wreaths are on behalf of the whole community, not just in Blantyre this year, but you’ll see I’ve […]
From Hamilton Advertiser 16th January 1875, Page 2. THE POOR. “Under the superintendence of the Kirk Session of the parish church, 63 carts of coals were recently delivered amongst the poor. Messrs Henry Monteith & Co., with their well-known liberality, gave 52 carts of coals to the poor of the village of Low Blantyre. The […]
There’s a good description of the Blantyre Remembrance Day service in a local newspaper on 14th November 1942. I can only imagine how much more personal and solemn this service must have been to the people , actually experiencing the war and losing those men and women in those same years. “A very large turnout […]
A story which happened in Blantyre exactly 127 years ago tonight. On Thursday 5th November 1896, Blantyre became a special lighting district. What this essentially meant, was that although there were gas street lights in some places already in Blantyre, the responsibility and running of the street lighting, was passed officially over to Council authorities […]
I’ve found the earliest mention of motor cars being in Blantyre when I read an entry from the Hamilton Herald newspaper on 22nd January 1897. It read: “A horseless carriage has been visiting Blantyre this week, and the small boy wants to know how it works. He is deeply interested in a vehicle which gets […]